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…]
25 years later, Abkhazia remains haunted by the missing
Online campaign for missing Chechen singer Bakayev
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…]
Search in Ingushetia for missing men
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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…]
Georgia and South Ossetia — working to identify the dead
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…]
No political will in Armenia to find the missing persons of the Karabakh conflict [Analysis]
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.
