Reburial service held for soldier remains repatriated from Laos, Cambodia

At the memorial service (Photo: VNA) Kon Tum (VNA) – The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum held a memorial service and re-buried 16 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives during wartime in Laos and Cambodia. The event was attended by representatives from the Government’s specialised committee on searching and repatriating volunteer soldiers’ remains, delegations from Laos’s Attapeu, Sekong and Champasak provinces, and Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province. During the 2017-2018 dry season, the search team of the provincial Military High Command repatriated 16 sets of martyrs’ remains. Of the total, 10 sets of remains were found in Rattanakiri province and six others in Laos’s Attapeu, Sekong and Champasak provinces. Many personal belongings of the fallen soldiers were found along with the remains, including rifles, water containers and combs.-VNA