Bodies of Georgian civilians killed in 2008 war in occupied Tskhinvali transferred to Tbilisi
The remains were identified in an international laboratory in Croatia.Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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 graves were opened and the bodies exhumed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the village of Tamarasheni in the occupied Tskhinvali region in October 2017.
The post-mortem examination was carried out at an international laboratory in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, which led to their identification,” the agency says.
Currently the bodies are at the National Forensics Bureau in Tbilisi, from where they will be handed to their families.
The International Committee of the Red Cross heads a triple coordination mechanism involving the ICRC, the central Georgian government and de facto authorities of the two Georgian occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali to identify individuals killed during the armed conflicts in Tskhinvali and Abkhazia in the early 1990s and 2008.
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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.
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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.