Gathering 70 graves of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Laos during the 2017 - 2018 dry season

In the dry season of 2017 - 2018, the Special Working Group of Xieng Khouang province - Laos directed 7 districts in the whole province and the Provincial Military Command, the Public Security, departments and branches of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party to actively propagate and educate civil servants, soldiers of the armed forces and people of Lao ethnic groups in Xieng Khouang province to improve their responsibilities, actively provide information; create all conditions to help the Collection Team of the Military Command of Nghe An province with equipment, vehicles, organize forces to participate in guiding and protecting security, and at the same time, participate in surveying and searching for information about martyrs' graves.

Working session scene. Photo: Tran Dung

Thanks to that, after more than 5 months of performing tasks in Xieng Khouang province, the Collection Team of the Nghe An Provincial Military Command has searched and exhumed 70 martyrs' graves (including 12 remains with identities, but unknown hometowns).

Steering Committee 1237 of Military Region inspects martyrs' relics searched and collected by the Nghe An Provincial Military Command's Collection Team during the 2017-2018 dry season. Photo: Tran Dung

At the meeting, Steering Committee 1237 of Military Region 4 and the Special Working Group of Xieng Khouang Province - Laos discussed and evaluated the results achieved in leadership and direction and drew experiences through the coordination of searching and collecting martyrs' remains in the past time. At the same time, they identified the difficulties, especially the source of information about the burial place of the remains of Vietnamese martyrs who died in Laos...

Therefore, the work of searching and collecting the remains of Vietnamese martyrs who died in Laos continues to be focused on by Steering Committee 1237 of Military Region 4 and Xieng Khouang province, promoting extensive propaganda and mobilization work among all classes of people; continuing to direct the Military and Police agencies of Xieng Khouang province to send officers to participate in activities with the Nghe An Collection Team to guide, protect, and contact localities and people to properly resolve related issues in performing the search and collection tasks.