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Efforts to search for, repatriate martyrs’ remains stepped up

The Steering Committee on Search and Repatriation of Remains of Fallen Soldiers (Steering Committee 515) of Military Zone 7 reburied 580 remains of martyrs during the 2016-2018 period, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 29.
Efforts to search for, repatriate martyrs’ remains stepped up ảnh 1The Military Zone 7 High Command presents merit certificates to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in the search for and repatriation of martyrs’ remains (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – The Steering Committee onSearch and Repatriation of Remains of Fallen Soldiers (Steering Committee 515)of Military Zone 7 reburied 580 remains of martyrs during the 2016-2018 period,heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 29.

Major General Tran Huu Tai, Vice Chairman of the PoliticalDepartment of Military Zone 7 and standing member of the Steering Committee515, reported that in the 2016-2018 dry seasons, the zone’s competent forcesrepatriated 743 remains of Vietnamese soldiers who died in Cambodia duringwars.

During the first phase of the 2018-2019 dry season, 110remains of Vietnamese martyrs in the neighbouring country were brought home, hesaid.

Major General Nguyen Minh Hoang, Vice Political Commissar ofMilitary Zone 7 and head of the Steering Committee 515, stressed that thesearch and repatriation of martyrs is the political task of the entire Party,army and people.

He asked units and localities in Military Zone 7 to completeprofiles of martyrs, make search and repatriation maps, and contact with domesticand foreign war veterans who used to fight in the localities to ask forinformation about martyrs.

Colonel Nguyen Xuan Yem, Deputy Chief of the Department ofPolicies under the Ministry of National Defence, applauded achievements in thesearch and repatriation of martyrs performed by units and localities inMilitary Zone 7.

He urged the Steering Committee 515 to pay special attentionto the information work and improve the efficiency of the search andrepatriation.

In the 2019-2020 period, the committee together with unitsand localities in Military Zone 7 are expected to search for and repatriate2,390 remains of martyrs, and instruct competent forces to bring home 748remains of Vietnamese martyrs in Cambodia.

On this occasion, the Military Zone 7 High Command presentedcertificates of merit to 33 collectives and 64 individuals with outstandingperformance in the work in 2016-2018.-VNA
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