Soldier remains repatriated from Cambodia
(VOV) - Thirty-seven sets of remains of volunteer Vietnamese soldiers who died during wartime in Cambodia were handed over to the Central Highland Province of Gia Lai on May 28.
Um Mara, governor of the Cambodian province of Preah Vihear presented the remains to Pham The Dung, chairman of the Gia Lai provincial People’s Committee.
Cambodian monks held a solemn requiem for Vietnamese combatants before the remains were repatriated to their homeland.
Gia Lai province has decided to build the Vietnam-Cambodia Combat Alliance Monument in Preah Vihear.
Since 2005 the Central Highland province has received 445 sets of remains of volunteer Vietnamese soldiers from Preah Vihear.