Remains of volunteer soldiers repatriated from Cambodia
(VOV) - The Central Highland province of Kon Tum on August 24 reburied 23 sets of remains of volunteer Vietnamese soldiers and specialists who died in Cambodia during wartime.
The remains were gathered by a provincial Military Command mission in Ta Ven district of Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province with assistance from local residents. They were buried in a hillside of a village in the district.
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The martyrs were said to be working for a medical military centre based in the Central Highlands during the Vietnam War against American aggression. None of them were unaccounted for.
Volunteer Vietnamese soldiers and specialists were sent to carry out lofty international missions in Cambodia and Laos during the past war, and many of them laid down their lives on the battlefields there.
With assistance from Cambodia and Laos, thousands of the remains were repatriated and reinterred in their home cemeteries.