Lika Managadze (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)
On 16 March, the bodies of 12 people who died during the 1992–1993 conflict in Abkhazia were returned to their families. Lika Managadze, whose father Akaki was among the dead, reflects on her memories of her father and how the war shaped the course of her life. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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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…]
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…]
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.
