The remains were collected by the Kon Tum provincial Search Team K53 during the dry season of 2016-2017.

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 At the repatriation service
At the ceremony, Colonel Somthong Doncannoi, Director of the Political Department of the Sekong provincial Military Command and Deputy Head of the Sekong Special Working Board, emphasized that thousands of Vietnamese experts and volunteer troops laid down their lives for Laos’ independence and freedom during the Lao resistance war against foreign invaders.

The Lao officer also stressed that those people were worthy to be eminent sons of the heroic Vietnamese people and eminent troops of the heroic Vietnamese People’s Army.

Thanking the Special Working Board and people of Sekong, Attapeu and Champasak provinces for their great assistance to the collection and repatriation of the Vietnamese martyrs’ remains over the past time, Ms. Tran Thi Nga, Vice Chairman of Vietnam’s Kon Tum provincial People’s Committee said that the ceremony was of great significance, helping better educate cadres and people, especially youths, of the two nations about and foster the special solidarity between the two nations as well as bring the comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties, States and peoples to a new height.

Of the repatriated remains, one was identified as fallen soldier Trinh Quang Chien, a resident of Tam Thai commune, Phu Ninh district of Quang Nam province, and a staff of C1-D32 unit, Front 559 and one named Thanh of D409, Military Region 5 on the headstone. Both of them died on November 5, 1981.

Translated by Mai Huong