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
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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.
The bodies of 12 people lost as a result of military conflicts in 1990s have been identified through the cooperation of Georgia’s State Ministry for Reconciliation and the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC).
The body of 29-year-old Georgian citizen Irakli Kvaratskhelia, who died in unclear circumstances in occupied Abkhazia, has been handed over to his relatives on Tbilisi-controlled territory. News of Kvaratskhelia’s death was reported yesterday, however sources fix his death at an earlier date.
The bodies of 23 people who went missing as a result of military conflicts in Georgia in the 1990s and in 2008 have been identified by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) chaired a meeting regarding the search for people who went missing during the 1992-93 armed conflict in Abkhazia on December 4, in Yerevan.
Georgia/s Permanent Representative to Geneva, Victor Dolidze, spoke with European Union ambassadors about the recent tragic death of Georgian citizen Irakli Kvaratskhelia in occupied Abkhazia.
The remains of seven Georgian civilians killed during the Russia-Georgia war in 2008 have been identified and transferred to Tbilisi from the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, the Georgian State Security Service reported earlier today.
Two Georgian soldiers killed by Nazis during the 1945 uprising on the Texel Island in the Netherlands have been identified. The fallen soldiers are Pido Tcholiashvili and Anton Gviniashvili, who were among a group who were shot for theft of 88 hand grenades on April 20, 1945 from Nazis to use them during the uprising.
The legitimate Government of Abkhazia, which is in exile in Tbilisi, will now be headed by Ruslan Abashidze, replacing Vakhtang Kolbaia. Abashidze was the First Deputy State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia since January 2019.
Forty graves will be exhumed in Georgia’s occupied region of Abkhazia in the west of the country to take DNA samples and to try to identify the individuals buried there, reports the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The remains of 13 individual who went missing during the 1992-93-armed conflict in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region have been identified and returned to their families.
The remains of 13 individuals who went missing during the 1992-93 armed conflict in Georgia’s Russia-occupied region of Abkhazia have been laid to rest. The bodies of six servicemen and seven civilians were identified through the cooperation of Georgia’s State Ministry for Reconciliation and the International Red Cross Committee.
Thirty graves are planned to be opened in Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region this year to take DNA samples and try to identify victims of armed conflict of 1992-93, reports the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC).