Reburial service for remains of 79 martyrs from Cambodia

Sunday, 15/05/2011 14:17

A ceremony was held at a cemetery in Duc Co district, in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai on May 14 to rebury the remains of 79 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who laid down their lives in Cambodia in the past wars.

After five months of searching, the K52 team of Gia Lai uncovered the remains of 79 fallen Vietnamese combatants; one was identified as Nguyen Ngoc Doanh, who was born in 1963 in Hanoi and died in 1974 in Ratanakiri province.

Over the past 10 years, military forces in Gia Lai have found and collected the remains of 1,061 Vietnamese soldiers who died on the battlefields in Laos and Cambodia./.

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