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The remains of 43 martyrs of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) who fell during the War to Resist American Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953) were repatriated to China from the Republic of Korea on Thursday.
A Y-20 transport plane of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force, carrying the remains and 495 personal belongings of fallen soldiers, landed in Shenyang, capital of the province, at noon Chinese from Liaoning (north-east).
The remains will be buried in a martyrs’ cemetery in Shenyang.
Following the handover of the martyrs’ remains and personal belongings by the Republic of Korea to the Chinese side in Incheon on Thursday morning, China held a memorial ceremony at Incheon International Airport. During the ceremony, the Chinese national anthem played, and each coffin was covered with the national flag. The participants bowed three times in homage to the martyrs before placing their remains on the plane.
Between 2014 and 2023, the two countries, in accordance with international law and humanitarian principles, carried out ten successive transfers involving the remains of 938 PCV martyrs, as well as related objects, from the Republic of Korea.
The Korean War broke out in June 1950, eight months after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. At the request of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Chinese CPV ground forces entered the Korean peninsula on October 19, 1950. A total of 2.9 million CPV troops took part in this conflict, which lasted nearly three years and left more than 360,000 dead and injured among them.
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