The northwestern province of Dien Bien on June 19 held a memorial and burial service for the remains of 12 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Laos.

More than 21,200 sets of remains of martyrs have been recovered since 2013, including over 3,300 sets in Laos and nearly 7,600 sets in Cambodia, helping consolidate the people’s confidence in the Party and State’s policies, heard a conference in Hanoi on May 15.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a working session in Hanoi on July 25 with units that analyse DNA samples of the remains of martyrs.

The Mekong Delta province of Long An’s People’s Committee on July 22 received and held memorial and burial services for remains of martyrs who fell down in Cambodia during the wartime.

The Ministry of National Defence has so far discovered and reburied more than 900,000 sets of remains of martyrs at over 3,000 cemeteries across the country, heard a press conference in Hanoi on July 9.

A ceremony was held at Vi Xuyen National Martyrs’ Cemetery in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on January 22 to rebury the remains of 11 martyrs who laid down their lives to safeguard the northern border.

The People’s Committee of central Quang Tri province on May 10 held a ceremony to rebury remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts who died in Laos during the wartime.

A ceremony was held on May 10 in Thanh Hoa province to rebury remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who died in Laos and Lao soldiers and students who died in Vietnam during wartime.

A national teleconference to review the implementation of a project to search for and collect the remains of martyrs during 2013-2015 will be organised on December 7.