LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensic Bureau has identified remains of 5 persons gone missing during the armed conflict in Abkhazia. Pavle Giorgadze, Deputy Head of the Bureau, Tea Akhvlediani, State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality, and representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation met with family members of soldiers fallen in Abkhazia.
Georgian soldiers will be buried with military l honors on 14 August, 2021. The process of identifying the remains of the heroes, with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross, began in September 2013 and continues to this day. Within the framework of the agreement between the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRS) and the Bureau, in order to identify persons gone missing during armed conflict of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali, 3780 DNA samples have been taken from family members of persons gone missing. Out of this, 3389 samples have been genotyped for further identification of the deceased.
For almost 7 years, within the framework of the agreement formed with the ICRS, cooperating with the Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality , LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensic Bureau has been actively involved in the process of identifying remains of soldiers and persons gone missing during the armed conflict of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.
Since 2013, the remains of over 200 soldiers fallen in the conflicts in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali have been identified. The identification continues and the Bureau will remain actively involved in the process until its completion.
LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensic Bureau expresses condolences to the families of deceased soldiers and honors the memory of the fallen heroes.