Bodies of seven victims of 2008 Russia-Georgia war returned home
The bodies were sent and identified at an international laboratory in Zagreb, Croatia. Photo: Ministry for Reconciliation and Civil Equality Issues.
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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 bodies were transferred from the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on March 19, 2019.
The transfer was implemented with the help of the State Security Service and and ICRC. Photo: Ministry for Reconciliation.
The ICRC opened the grave near village Tamarasheni, Tskhinvali and exhumed the bodies in October, 2017.
The bodies were sent and identified at an international laboratory in Zagreb, Croatia.
This is very painful, a big tragedy and pain… but it is of utmost importance for the families to know where their beloved people are laid to rest,” Georgia’s Minister for Reconciliation Ketevan Tsikhelashvili stated and thanked all for being involved in the process.
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.
Several bodies of the victims of military operations in Georgia were recently laid to rest.
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 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 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.
The remains of 13 people who went missing during the 1992–93 armed conflict in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region have been identified and returned to their families. It was possible to identify the bodies of eight military servicemen and five civilians through the joint efforts of the Georgian State Ministry for Reconciliation and Civic Equality and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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 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.