JAKARTA - The bodies of 109 Chinese soldiers who were victims of the Korean war during 1950-1953 will be repatriated from South Korea on Thursday, September 2.
The repatriation of 109 bodies, which was carried out ceremonially in Incheon, South Korea, on Wednesday was the eighth batch of repatriations since 2014.
The funeral ceremony was held at the Hero Cemetery Park (TMP) of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province on Friday, September 3. This was stated by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of China, as reported by Antara.
The soldiers of the Chinese Volunteer Force (CPV) fought alongside North Korean military forces against South Korean troops and United Nations forces led by the United States.
Nearly 200,000 CPV soldiers died in the war and almost all of them are buried on the Korean Peninsula.
A total of 109 bodies and 1,226 relics have been successfully excavated from six locations in South Korea during the 2019-2020 period, South Korea's Ministry of Defense was quoted as saying by Chinese broadcasters.
In 2014, China and South Korea signed an agreement to hand over the bodies of Korean war victims. Since then until 2020, South Korea has repatriated the bodies of 716 CPV soldiers.
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