On the afternoon of July 25, the Department of Administrative Police for Social Order (C06, Ministry of Public Security) held a conference to review Plan 356/KH-BCA-C06 on collecting DNA samples from relatives of unidentified martyrs.
Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the conference.
The conference was also attended by Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long - Deputy Minister of Public Security, Major General Vu Van Tan - Director of Department C06, and leaders of central departments, ministries and branches.
Implemented since July 2024, Plan 356 of the Ministry of Public Security is a large-scale program with profound humanitarian value, aiming to identify the identities of martyrs with missing information, children who have transformed into the motherland, resting in thousands of cemeteries across the country.
It is a journey to bring technology back to serve memories, an effort for unknown data flows to light up hope, connecting the hearts of the living with the shadow of the deceased.
Major General Vu Van Tan - Director of Department C06 - said that as of July 20, 2025, the whole country had collected 57,273 DNA samples of martyrs' relatives.
Regarding the results of comparing DNA of relatives and DNA of martyrs' remains, based on information that 128 martyrs' remains were collected at the Duc Co - Gia Lai martyrs' cemetery provided by the Department of Policy - Ministry of National Defense, C06 has directed and coordinated with local police to review martyrs' information and relatives' information. Through screening and cleaning, it was determined that DNA samples of 89 martyrs' relatives needed to be collected.
C06 has coordinated with Genstory to collect 149 relatives and complete DNA sample analysis. On June 18, 2025, he received DNA analysis data from 64 martyrs who were sampled at Duc Co - Gia Lai cemetery from the National Institute of Forensic Medicine.
Through comparing martyrs' remains data provided by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine with martyrs' relatives data, 16 cases of martyrs' remains DNA suspected of maternal double-entry relationship with DNA of 27 martyrs' relatives were detected. C06 has coordinated with the Department of Meritorious People (Ministry of Home Affairs) to complete the dossier to recognize the martyrs' identities for the 16 heroic martyrs above.
C06 assessed this as the initial result of implementing a Gen bank (ADN) for martyrs' relatives whose identities have not been determined, with a small amount of collected data and documents; however, certain results have been achieved.
"This is a motivation for the Ministry of Public Security to continue to coordinate with units to build and open a Gen Bank (ADN) for unidentified martyrs' relatives to compensate for the great losses of martyrs' families who have gone through war and restore the identities of heroes and martyrs" - Major General Vu Van Tan shared.
