Binh Phuoc (VNA) – The K72 team of thesouthern province of Binh Phuoc’s Military Command on January 6 completed thefirst phase of the 22nd period of searching for the remains ofVietnamese volunteer soldiers who laid down their lives in Cambodia during the war.
During the first phase in the 2022-2023 dry season,the team has gathered 50 sets of martyr remains in the Cambodian provinces ofKratie and Kampong Thom since November 7, with one identified,said Col. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, political commissar of the team.
Before repatriating the remains, authorities of Kratie and Kampong Thom provinces held ceremonies to pray for martyrs and completed procedures to hand their remains over to Vietnam.
As scheduled, a memorial andreburial ceremony will be held at the Binh Phuoc provincial martyrs’ cemetery on January9.
Over more than twodecades, the team has repatriated over 2,700 sets of remains of volunteer Vietnamese soldiers fallen in Cambodia./.