Military unit locates remains of over 1,200 soldiers in Cambodia and Vietnam
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Military Region 7 of the Vietnamese People's Army discovered the remains of 1,237 soldiers who died in action in Cambodia and several eastern Vietnamese provinces over the past six months.
The unit conducted a search and recovery operation called “The 500 Day and Night Campaign” to locate and repatriate the remains of fallen soldiers. They established teams to oversee the work across four Vietnamese cities and provinces and in Cambodia.
The teams recovered 750 sets of remains within Vietnam and 487 in Cambodia between March 15th and September 24th. Military Region 7 also collected biological samples from the remains, sending them to the Military Forensic Institute and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology for DNA testing to identify the soldiers. Alongside the recovery efforts, the unit received over 170 pieces of information regarding missing soldiers and graves.
Lieutenant General Trần Chí Tâm, Deputy Political Commissar of Military Region 7, praised the teams' efforts and instructed them to continue prioritizing safety, care for personnel, and thorough investigation of historical records and witness accounts to improve future searches.
