Burial services for 29 soldiers' remains repatriated from Cambodia
The Central Highland province of Gia Lai on May 11 held a memorial and burial service for the remains of 29 Vietnamese voluntary soldiers who laid down their lives in the battlefields of Cambodia during wartime.
The Central Highland province of Gia Lai on May 11 held a memorial and burial service for the remains of 29 Vietnamese voluntary soldiers who laid down their lives in the battlefields of Cambodia during wartime.
The remains were found in the northeastern region of Cambodia in the 2016-2017 dry season by Group K52 of the Gia Lai Military Command.
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Military officers paying tribute to the fallen soldiers (source: dantri)
Over the past 15 years, thanks to the two governments’ assistance and the cooperation of Cambodian authorities, people and armed forces, the group has discovered and repatriated nearly 1,400 sets of remains of fallen soldiers, which were buried at a martyrs cemetery in Duc Co district./.
( VNF/VNA )
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