The President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, attended the civil funeral of the persons who went missing during the armed actions of the 1990s and were transferred from occupied Abkhazia, and expressed her condolences to the family members of the deceased.
With the joint cooperation of the Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality and the International Committee of the Red Cross, within the framework of the coordination mechanism, 12 identified missing persons were transported and returned to their families.
5 fighters were buried at the Digomi brothers’ cemetery, and other identified persons were buried with military honors at the ancestral cemeteries by the decision of their families.
The Georgian Civil War lasted from 1991 to 1993. It consisted of inter-ethnic and international conflicts in the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as the violent military coup d’état against the first democratically-elected President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
The South Ossetia and Abkhazia conflicts resulted in the de facto secession of both regions from Georgia. As a result, both conflicts have lingered on, with occasional flare-ups.
