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25 years later, Abkhazia remains haunted by the missing

29 March 2018 by Kieran Pender

The Park of Glory, Sukhum/i (Dominik K. Cagara /OC Media)

A quarter of a century after the Abkhazian–Georgian war, the bodies of those killed are still being recovered. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: abkhazia, conflict, european georgia, georgia, missing people, missing persons, red cross, war

Online campaign for missing Chechen singer Bakayev

1 September 2017 by OC Media

Zelimkhan Bakayev (vk.com)

Russian human rights activists have launched an online campaign to support the search for Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev, who dis­ap­peared in the Chechen capital Grozny on 8 August. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, daghestan, missing persons, moscow, russia, singer, zelim bakayev, zelimkhan bakayev

Search in Ingushetia for missing men

25 July 2017 by OC Media

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Searches are con­tin­u­ing in Ingushetia for two local men who dis­ap­peared without a trace five days ago. Police and relatives have so far failed to find a trace of the missing men, according to the Ingush Interior Ministry. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: ingushetia, missing persons, russia

Georgia and South Ossetia — working to identify the dead

21 June 2017 by Goga Aptsiauri

The Red Cross exhuming mass graves near Gori and Kaspi. May, 2017 (the Inter­na­tion­al Committee of the Red Cross)

There are over 2,000 people whose fate is still unac­count­ed for from Georgia’s conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, making it difficult for families to grieve and move on. While cross border efforts lead by the Red Cross are in full swing to find, exhume, and identify the bodies of the fallen — time is not on their side. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: conflict, david sanakoyev, georgia, gori, kaspi, mass grave, mass graves, missing persons, red cross, south ossetia, tskhinvali, victims of war, war

No political will in Armenia to find the missing persons of the Karabakh conflict [Analysis]

24 May 2017 by Edgar Khachatryan

Relatives of missing persons plant seedlings in the central park in Armavir, Armenia (H. Galstyan/ICRC)

Edgar Khacha­tryan is the head of the Vanadzor-based organ­i­sa­tion Peace Dialogue, working on peace­build­ing and human rights in Armenia and the South Caucasus.

Thousands of people have gone missing due to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. More than two decades have passed since a ceasefire agreement was signed, but thousands of families still do not know what happened to their loved ones.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion & Analysis Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, conflict, missing persons, nagorno-karabakh, red cross, war

Editor’s pick

Equal and more equal: Abkhazia’s passport policy

Equal and more equal: Abkhazia’s passport policy

Stella Adleyba

Ethnic Armenians, Russians, Georgians, and others fear the reason behind new cit­i­zen­ship reg­u­la­tions is to deprive them of Abkhazian passports.

Opinion | A narrow definition of safety harms workers in Georgia

Opinion | A narrow definition of safety harms workers in Georgia

Human Rights Watch

Georgia’s newly adopted law on labour safety is lacking statutes on workers’ rights due a narrow def­i­n­i­tion of safety.

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Voice from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘I am not convinced, even now, that everything is over’

Voice from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘I am not convinced, even now, that everything is over’

‘My Soviet childhood was very happy. I thought that my whole life would be like a fairy tale. But the fairy tale ended abruptly.’

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, a London-based think tank.

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