Laos pledges to help Vietnam seek fallen soldiers’ remains
The Lao people will never forget the volunteer Vietnamese soldiers and experts, who laid down their lives for the prosperity of Laos, a Lao army general has said recently.
Lao Deputy Minister of Defence Chansamone Chanuyalath also affirmed his country is determined to provide the best assistance for searching for and repatriating the remains of these Vietnamese volunteers.
In the dry seasons of 2010 and 2011, the Lao government helped its Vietnamese counterpart to seek 482 sets of remains of killed Vietnamese soldiers, of which 49 sets have been fully identified.
Lao people and localities have provided more than 1,500 pieces of information to the Lao government’s special commission on this work. Based on this, Laos has planned to help Vietnamese groups to repatriate another 500 sets of remains in the dry seasons of 2011 and 2012.
Over the past 17 years, the Lao government’s special commission has helped search groups from Vietnam’s Thua Thien Hue province to take home over 600 sets of remains and Nghe An province nearly 6,000 sets of remains.