Bodies of 23 people lost in Georgia military conflicts identified
Approximately 2,300 people are still considered to be missing in Georgia as a result of military conflicts in the 1990s and August 2008. Photo: Diana Japaridze/ICRC.
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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 ICRC has held group and individual meetings with members of the families of the deceased, and provided them with information on the identification process and answered their questions.
The families were also provided with psychological consultation.
The decades of vagueness for 23 Georgian, Abkhaz and Ossetian missing people’s families have ended,” said Nicolas Fleury, the ICRC operations coordinator for Europe and Central Asia.
Approximately 2,300 people are still considered to be missing in Georgia as a result of military conflicts in the 1990s and August 2008.
Since the conflicts, the remains of 500 missing people have been found. Since 2013 alone, 200 have been identified and transferred to their families.
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.
The body of Mikheil Jincharadze who died in the fight in the town of Gagra, Abkhazia in 1992 was brought home 25 years after his death thanks to the efforts by the Georgian government and his own relatives living in Abkhazia.
The bodies of 12 more Georgians found in a mass grave in Abkhazia, at Sokhumi’s Babushera Airport have been identified and will today finally rest in peace at the Tbilisi Brothers’ Military Cemetery.
Four soldiers who died in a plane crash while on a military mission 21 years ago have been buried with full military honours at the Digomi Brothers’ Cemetery today.
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 bodies of 12 people who went missing as a result of the military conflicts of the 1990s in Georgia have been laid to rest. Seven of them were fighters, one was a volunteer and four were civilians.
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.
The bodies of seven Georgian citizens who died in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war have been transferred to their families after the National Forensic Bureau conducted studies. The transfer was implemented with the help of the State Security Service and under the aegis of the International Community of the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC opened the grave near village Tamarasheni, Tskhinvali and exhumed the bodies in October, 2017.
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 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).
The remains of five missing individuals who went missing during the 1992-1993 armed conflicts in the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia have been identified and a memorial service will be held today and tomorrow at Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Interpressnews (IPN) reports.