After being repatriated from Mali on the evening of February 28, the remains of Major Phoeuk Chivoan, deputy commander of Airport Engineering Squadron 729, were prepared for traditional funeral rites on March 1 by his families and leaders of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC) in Trapeang Samreth village of Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district.
The NPMEC claims that since December 2022, Chivoan has been serving on a UN-sponsored peacekeeping mission in the Tesalit neighborhood of Bamako’s war-torn country.
He died of a respiratory illness on February 9 at the age of 42.
