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Nguyễn Công Minh, con gái của phó Quận trưởng quận Triệu Phong, tỉnh Quảng Trị vào thời điểm đó, nói rằng cha cô, sắp về hưu, đã bị bắt tại nhà riêng khởi đầu cuộc tấn công. Sau khi ông nói với quân Giải phóng rằng ông là Phó Thị trưởng thành phố Huế sẽ được cho nghỉ hưu trong năm sau (1969), ông được lệnh phải trình diện ở khu cải tạo. Hai ngày đầu, ông được cho về nhà sau khi đến khai báo, đến ngày thứ 3 thì ông được yêu cầu đóng gói quần áo và thực phẩm để tới khu trại trong 10 ngày. Ông không bao giờ được nhìn thấy một lần nữa, cũng không tìm được hài cốt của ông. Cô kể lại rằng vào mùa hè năm 1969, khi tìm kiếm thi thể của cha cô (việc tìm kiếm do một người Cộng sản trình diện chiêu hồi chỉ dẫn), cô đã chứng kiến 7 thi thể trong một ngôi mộ đã được tìm thấy. Nguyễn Công Minh ước tính khoảng 250 thi thể được tìm thấy trong 1 tháng tìm kiếm trong 8 hố chôn tập thể. Interview with Mrs. Nguyen Cong Minh, WGBH Educational Foundation. Trích: First of all, they arrived at Xuan O where they dug up, ah, that man pointed out, he only knew one tunnel and pointed it out and when it was dug up, there were the remains of seven persons who were all tied up, tied up with their hands behind their backs. And when, ah, when, ah, when they were dug up they were found to have had their skulls broken. They were having their arms tied behind their backs. And when they were dug up, the ropes could be seen connected with one another. And then, ah, then the digging continued. In that whole area, the soil was all sandy. And so when people went around searching they saw that erosion, ah, the sand shifted, ah, the sand shifted and so the bones were exposed. And so all the, It was all sand around there, sand burnt everything, and the graves, the places where there was sand, uh, there was green grass, then people dug up and then they found the remains. And so people dug up this area like that for a whole month and were able to find, ah, 250 remains. Among them, 50 were identified by their relatives. And, ah, each time a corpse was dug up we found, we tore off the shirt and went down to a stream to wash it in order to identify the color of the fabric, to see whether the color was still there. I remembered that when my father left he wore a brown jacket. And so I had to tear off jackets to find out whether my father's jacket was among them. Or I looked at teeth to find out whether certain teeth were missing. But we were never able to find the remains of my father. Then, ah, the digging went on like that in Xuan O, Xuan Doi and then in Phu Tu. And we continued to follow the diggers until September 1969. When we arrived in Phu Tu, eight more tunnels were dug up. But, ah, it rained in September. So when they dug the remains up they were drenched. Water mixed in with the flesh and so it was impossible, it was impossible to see anything at all. The flesh was washed out and the rain poured, and so we were not able to see anything at all. But all of them, but it was strange that all the skulls were broken and the arms were tied up and the positions indicated that they were kneeling when they died. They were bundling up, they were huddling. And, not, not, the skeletons were not stretched out. They were sitting huddled up like that only. And, when, when September came, ah, I continued to follow the search party until until September 1969, but I was never able to find my father's remains....... [This section of the interview has not been translated]