Gia Lai reviews search, collection, and verification of fallen soldiers' remains

At the conference

The conference evaluated that despite difficulties and challenges, the Gia Lai provincial Party Committee, authorities, and Steering Committee 515 (the Steering Committee for search, collection, and verification of fallen soldiers' remains) have thoroughly learnt the Central’s directives and decisions and considered martyrs’ remains search and collection an important political mission and the whole political system’s responsibility.

Over the past time, the province has fostered information dissemination and launched a movement to mobilize war veterans to provide information about fallen soldiers’ burial places. Gia Lai has also directed its districts, towns, and city to review and add more documents about fallen soldiers and maps of their burial places and conduct the search and collection at commune-, district-, and province-levels as regulated.

The Central Highlands locality has also completed and digitalized the list of 5,707 martyrs and received and reviewed information of 17,572 martyrs provided by other units and localities. It is estimated that there are 4,592 sets of remains of martyrs have yet to be collected. 

From the beginning of 2022 to May 16, Team K52 surveyed and conducted the search and collection in 101 out of 808 villages, 21 out of 135 communes and wards, 18 out of 23 districts in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri, Stung Treng, Pret Vi Hia provinces. The team gathered 18 sets of remains of fallen soldiers, bringing the total number of martyrs collected and repatriated from 2001 to 1,446.

At the event, delegates also pointed out shortcomings in carrying out the work and rolled out orientations for missions in 2023. The province targets to search and collect from 40 to 60 sets of remains of martyrs at home and in Cambodia. 

Translated by Tran Hoai