July, 28 2011
VNS (Hanoi)
TAY NINH — The remains of 112 volunteer soldiers who died in Cambodia were reburied yesterday in Tan Bien District's Martyrs' Cemetery in the southern border province of Tay Ninh.
The remains were located and collected by two teams from the Military Zone 7 High Command, the Tay Ninh provincial Military High Command, K70 and K71, from Cambodia's Siem Reap, Battdombong, Kongpongcham and Pailin provinces. The teams worked during the dry season from November 2010 to July 2011.
With the support of the Cambodian Royal Army, the authorities and local people, the K70 and K71 teams have so far located, exhumed and repatriated 2,546 sets of remains of Vietnamese martyrs.