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  Wandering Souls
    

(Images of spirits are everywhere such as these kites in Hanoi | Photo: Matt Thompson)
Share 		Vietnamese culture emphasizes the importance of a "good" death. But many of the million-plus Vietnamese who were killed during the Vietnam War were not given traditional burial rites. This documentary produced for the BBC World Service examines the beliefs surrounding these angry ghosts, or "wandering souls."

  
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(Forty percent of the 20,000 graves in this cemetery are un-named. More than 30,000 Vietnamese soldiers are still missing. |Photo: Matt Thompson)

Cathy Fitzgerald looks at how the war dead continue to reverberate through Vietnam's spiritual realm.



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(Paper horses being burnt at a Pagoda at Ho Chi Minh city| Photo: Matt Thompson)

The bodies of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese soldiers are still missing, decades after the end of the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese believe these soldiers have become angry ghosts, who'll never find peace. Cathy Fitzgerald travels with a group of Vietnam Vets -- who are trying to help.
     
   
   
     




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