An Giang (VNA) – A memorial and reburial ceremony was held in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on July 24 to honour the sacrifices of 88 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who laid their lives in Cambodia and An Giang.
Search teams from Military Zone 9 and the provincial Military Command recovered the remains during the 2023-2024 dry season in Cambodia’s Kandal, Kongpong Chnang, Takeo, and Kampong Speu provinces, as well as An Giang’s Tinh Bien township and Chau Doc city.
A similar ceremony took place in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, where 28 remains were laid to rest the same day. They were discovered in Cambodia’s Koh Kong and Kam Pot provinces, along with two in Kien Giang.
Since 2001, Kien Giang provincial authorities have collected and repatriated 2,132 remains to Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts in the Cambodian provinces of Kam Pot, Kep, Koh Kong and Preah Sihanouk under an agreement between the Vietnamese and Cambodian governments.
To commemorate War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27), a separate ceremony was held at Hill 82 Tan Bien Martyrs Cemetery in the southern province of Tay Ninh to lay to rest the remains of 172 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who fell down in Cambodia. They were brought back to Vietnam in the second phase of repatriation during the 2023-2024 dry season./.
