Cambodian Peacekeeper’s Body Returns Home

The body of Lieutenant-Colonel Phoeuk Chivorn, Deputy Commander of Airport Engineering Squadron No. 729, arrived home last night from the Republic of Mali.
The home-coming ceremony was organised according to religious and military rites at Phnom Penh International Airport in the presence of H.E. Gen. Sem Sovanny, Director General of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces, Mines and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance (NPMEC), representative of Samdech Pichey Sena Tea Banh, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence, and family members of the deceased.
H.E. Gen. Sem Sovanny expressed his deepest sadness and sincere condolences to the family of Lieutenant-Colonel Phoeuk Chivorn who passed on Feb. 9 on a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali following a respiratory illness.
So far, 11 Cambodian peacekeepers have lost their lives and 15 others have been injured on UN missions.
Since 2006, Cambodia has deployed 8,951 peacekeepers, including 692 women, to join UN missions in Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Syria, Lebanon, Mali, Cyprus, and Yemen.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse