What is Võ Nguyên Giáp?
[[File:Vo Nguyen Giap 2008.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Giáp in 2008]] [[File:General Giáp signature.svg|thumb|right|200px|Giáp's signature]] {{Infobox Vietnamese |title=Vietnamese name |vie=Võ Nguyên Giáp |hn={{linktext|武|元|甲}} }} '''Võ Nguyên Giáp''' (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a [[general]] in the [[Vietnam People's Army]] and a politician. He fought during [[World War II]], where he served as the military leader of the [[Viet Minh]] resistance against the [[Japanese occupation of Vietnam]]. Giap was a principal commander in two wars: the [[First Indochina War]] (1946–54) and the [[Vietnam War]] (1960–75). He fought in the following historically significant battles: [[Battle of Route Coloniale 4|Lạng Sơn]] (1950), [[Battle of Hòa Bình|Hòa Bình]] (1951–52), [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Điện Biên Phủ]] (1954), the [[Tet Offensive|Tết Offensive]] (1968), the [[Easter Offensive]] (1972), and the final [[Ho Chi Minh Campaign]] (1975). Võ Nguyên Giáp was also a teacher and a [[journalist]], an interior minister in President [[Ho Chi Minh|Hồ Chí Minh]]'s [[Viet Minh|Việt Minh]] government, the military commander of the Viet Minh, the commander of the [[People's Army of Vietnam]] (PAVN), and defense minister. He also served as a member of the [[Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam|Politburo]] of the Vietnam Workers' Party, which in 1976 became the [[Communist Party of Vietnam]]. On 4 October 2013, Võ Nguyên Giáp died in [[Hanoi]] at the age of 102.<ref name=APABC>{{cite news|title=Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap Dies|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/legendary-vietnam-gen-vo-nguyen-giap-dies-20469851|access-date=4 October 2013|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> He was given a state funeral on 12 and 13 October 2013 and his body lay in state at the national morgue in Hanoi until his burial at the Vũng Chùa - Đảo Yến in his home province of Quảng Bình. On 8 February 2015, Nhat Tan - Noi Bai freeway renamed to Vo Nguyen Giap street in Dong Anh and Soc Son, Hanoi. On 9 March 2021, Ho Chi Mi