Remains of 112 volunteers returned from Cambodia

July, 28 2011
VNS (Hanoi)

TAY NINH — The remains of 112 volunteer soldiers who died in Cambodia were reburied yesterday in Tan Bien District’s Martyrs’ Cemetery in the southern border province of Tay Ninh.

The remains were located and collected by two teams from the Military Zone 7 High Command, the Tay Ninh provincial Military High Command, K70 and K71, from Cambodia’s Siem Reap, Battdombong, Kongpongcham and Pailin provinces. The teams worked during the dry season from November 2010 to July 2011.

With the support of the Cambodian Royal Army, the authorities and local people, the K70 and K71 teams have so far located, exhumed and repatriated 2,546 sets of remains of Vietnamese martyrs.

On the same day as the Tay Ninh reburial, the neighbouring province of Binh Phuoc also held a ceremony to rebury 65 sets of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers’ remains from Kratie, Mundulkiri and Kongphongthom provinces of Cambodia.

To date, Binh Phuoc has exhumed a total of 2,149 sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers fallen in Cambodia and the Binh Phuoc battlefield. Yesterday, the southern province of Kien Giang and Military Zone 9 High Command co-organised a reburial for 112 sets of remains of Vietnamese experts and volunteer soldiers killed in Cambodia.

Dong Thap Province also reburied 48 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who laid down their lives for international tasks in Cambodia. Over the past 10 years, the province has collected and repatriated 1,035 sets of remains of Vietnamese martyrs from Cambodia.