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Dak Lak repatriates remains of 17 soldiers, experts from Cambodia

Remains of 17 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Cambodia during wartime were brought home by a search and repatriation team of Dak Lak province in the 2018 – 2019 dry season.
Dak Lak repatriates remains of 17 soldiers, experts from Cambodia ảnh 1A ceremony held in Dak Lak province on May 16 to rebury Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Cambodia during wartime (Photo: VNA)

Dak Lak (VNA) – Remains of 17 Vietnamese volunteersoldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Cambodia during wartime werebrought home by a search and repatriation team of Dak Lak province in the 2018– 2019 dry season.

A meeting to review the search and repatriationin the 2018 – 2019 dry season was held by the People’s Committee of the CentralHighlands province on August 1.

Officials reported that during the period, thesearch and repatriation team, also known as Team K51, of the Dak Lak MilitaryHigh Command excavated more than 260 sites, finding and repatriating remains of17 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts in Cambodia.

In July this year, they also excavated foursites in across Dak Lak province and found out remains of a martyr who waslater identified and handed over to the martyr’s family for reburial in thecentral province of Binh Dinh.

Setting targets for the time ahead, officialssaid in 2020, the relevant force will repatriate remains of three – fivemartyrs buried in Dak Lak. They will also strive to bring home remains of 10 –12 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts from Cambodia in the 2019 – 2020dry season.

The provincial People’s Committee will directthe force to press on with mass mobilisation, especially in the Cambodianprovince of Mondulkiri bordering Dak Lak. Solemn reburial ceremonies will beheld after each phase of repatriation to pay tribute to martyrs.-VNA
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