Remains of volunteer soldiers reburried at the Hill 82 Cemetery (Photo: xaluan.com)
Tay Ninh (VNA) - A burial service was held at the Hill 82 Cemetery in Tan Bien district, the southern province of Tay Ninh on July 26 to re-bury the remains of 344 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who laid down their lives on Cambodian battle fields during wartime and seven martyrs found in the locality.
At the ceremony, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Ngoc noted that millions of volunteer soldiers and local people sacrificed their lives during the struggles against French and US aggression, as well as post 1975 wars to protect the country’s southwest and northern borders.
The provincial authorities have joined hands with Cambodian localities in the search and repatriation of martyrs’ remains over the past number of years, he highlighted.
During the 2015-2016 dry season, the soldiers remains were found by the K70 search team of Military Zone 7 and the K71 team from the Military Command of Tay Ninh province.
Since 2000, local authorities and Military Zone 7 have retrieved 3,881 sets of martyrs’ remains through 15 phases of searching in Cambodia.
On the same day, a burial ceremony was also held in the southern province of Binh Phuoc💖 to rebury 28 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteers exhumed in Cambodia.
The province has found 2,552 martyrs’ remains, which included 289 retrieved in Vietnam and 2,263 in Cambodia.-VNA
Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam urged authorities at all levels, ministries and sectors to push forward with the search for and collection of fallen soldier remains.
A ceremony was held at a martyrs’ cemetery in southern province of Binh Phuoc on February 3 to rebury 70 sets of remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers who died during wars in Cambodia’s provinces.
Ho Chi Minh City held a service at the martyrs’ cemetery of Cu Chi district on June 5 to rebury 14 sets of remains of soldiers who died in the southeastern region during the war against the US.
Vietnam and Laos cooperated in repatriating 233 sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers who died during wartime in Laos in the 2015-2016 dry season from November to April.
As many as 748 sets of remains of Vietnamese experts and volunteers have been repatriated from Cambodia during the 2015-2016 dry season, as heard at a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on July 25.
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Remains of volunteer soldiers reburried at the Hill 82 Cemetery (Photo: xaluan.com)
