Identified bodies of Georgia military conflicts victims laid to rest

23 bodies of the victims of military conflicts in 1990s and 2008 August War were recently identified by the Red Cross. Photo: Reconciliation Ministry

Agenda.ge, 16 Mar 2019 - 14:23, Tbilisi,Georgia

The bodies of 12 people who went missing as a result of the military conflicts of the 1990s in Georgia have been laid to rest.

The bodies were identified through the cooperation of Georgia’s State Ministry for Reconciliation and the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC).

Seven of them were fighters, one was a volunteer and four were civilians.

11 bodies were transferred to Holy Trinity Cathedral yesterday while the other identified person was directly buried at an ancestral cemetery in Guria region, upon the family’s request. Photo: Reconciliation Ministry

23 bodies of the victims of military conflicts in 1990s and 2008 August War were recently identified by the Red Cross.

The ICRC aims to find and identify the remains of more than 2,200 missing people that went missing as a result of military conflicts in the early 1990s and 2008 and inform their families.

163 bodies have been identified since 2013. 121 of those identified are Georgians, 42 are Abkhaz.