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Georgia and South Ossetia — working to identify the dead
david sanakoyev

Georgia and South Ossetia — working to identify the dead

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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. ‘If he is dead, then where is his body?’ For nine years Ana Samadalashvili from Gori has been waiting for her husband to return home. On 8 August 2008, Zaza Birtveli

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