Saturday, 26 July 2008

Soldiers’ remains come home from Cambodia

Nhan Dan
July 26, 2008

Nhan Dan/VNA The central province of Binh Phuoc held a solemn ceremony at its martyr cemetery on July 25 to rebury remains of 113 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives during the war in Cambodia.

These sets of remains were found in the neighbouring country by the provincial search team K72 in the second phase of 2008.

Since 2002, Binh Phuoc province has repatriated almost 1,640 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts and laid them to rest at the provincial martyr cemetery.

The same day, southern Tay Ninh province held a burial ceremony at the Tan Bien district’s martyr cemetery for 101 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who fell down in Cambodia during wars.

Since 2001, with the assistance of the Cambodian Royal Army, authorities and people, Tay Ninh provincial search teams K 70 and K71 have excavated and repatriated 2,226 sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers from the neighbouring country.

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