This is a notable content of the Ordinance on preferential treatment given to people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020 of Vietnam.
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According to Article 14 of the Ordinance on preferential treatment given to people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020 of Vietnam, those who have sacrificed for the revolutionary cause of national liberation, construction and defense of the Fatherland, performed international obligations or for the benefit of the State or the people shall be considered and recognized by competent authorities as martyrs in one of the following cases:
- Fighting or directly serving in combat to protect independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security;
- Performing national defense and security tasks in areas occupied by the enemy, areas with hostilities, and areas adjacent to areas occupied by the enemy; (new provision)
- Directly engage in political and organized psychological warfare against the enemy;
- Participating in revolutionary activities, resistance war, was captured and tortured by the enemy but still refused to submit, resolutely struggles or implements the policy of prison escape, prison escape but sacrificed;
- Performing international obligations;
- Courageously perform urgent and dangerous tasks in service of national defense and security;
- Directly performing combat training and maneuvering tasks or performing dangerous national defense and security tasks;
- Due to illness or accident that cannot be treated in time while directly performing national defense and security tasks in border areas, at sea or on islands with extremely difficult conditions according to the list prescribed by the Government;
- Directly performing the task of fighting crime;
- Being especially brave in saving lives and property of the State and the people or preventing and arresting people committing criminal acts, is a meaningful example of honoring, educating, spreading widely in the society;
- Recurrent wounds are the main cause of death for war invalids, beneficiaries of policies as war invalid specified in Clause 1 and 2 Article 23 of this Ordinance, having a body injury rate of 61% or more, having a medical record for treatment of recurrent wounds from a hospital of a district or higher level, and a record of death examination; (current regulation only stipulates war invalids or policy beneficiaries as war invalids die from recurrent wounds)
- Missing in the case specified at Point a, b, c, d, dd, e, g, i and k Clause 1 Article 14 of the Ordinance on preferential treatment given to people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020 of Vietnam and concluded by a competent authority not to betray; surrender, participate in the Open Arms program, desertion. (new provision compared to Point i and k Clause 1 Article 14 of this Ordinance).
Thus, from July 01, 2021, the subjects in the above cases will be recognized as martyrs and will enjoy the following regimes:
- Organize death announcements, memorials, burials and registration at works of martyrs;
- Posthumously confer the Certificate of "Fatherland attribution" according to the Government's regulations;
- Martyrs' remains are searched, gathered, identified and buried;
- When a martyr has no relatives to enjoy the monthly survivorship allowance, the person assigned or authorized to worship the martyr is entitled to the martyr worship allowance.
View more details at the Ordinance on preferential treatment given to people with meritorious services to the revolution 2020 of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2021.
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