Bodies of military operations victims to be transferred to families
163 bodies have been identified so far. The first identification was carried out in 2013. Photo: State Ministry for Reconciliation
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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).
Seven of them were fighters, one was a volunteer and four were peaceful civilians.
11 bodies are to be transferred to Holy Trinity Cathedral on March 15, while the other identified person will be directly buried at an ancestral cemetery in Guria region.
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 so far. The first identification was carried out in 2013. 121 of those identified are Georgians, 42 are Abkhaz.
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 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 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 five individuals who went missing during the 1992-93 armed conflict in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region have been identified and returned to their families.