Speaking at the event, Vice Chairman of the provincialPeople’s Committee Pham Dang Quyen said over the past two decades, theprovincial Military Command’s search team has sought and found thousands of setsof remains of Vietnamese soldiers in Laos.
The work was carried out under the direction of theGovernment’s Special Working Committee, the Party Central Committee’s SteeringCommittee 1237, and the High Command of the Military Zone IV.
The provincial military units also held communicationscampaigns to encourage the public to provide information on fallen soldiers,thus improving the efficiency of the search and gathering of martyrs’ remains,and upheld the role of the War Veterans’ Association, the Association of FormerYouth Volunteers, and liaison committees in the process.
During the 2016-2017 dry season, the team found andrepatriated 21 sets of remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts in Laos.-VNA