A commemorative event dedicated to the International Day of the Missing has been held in the capital of South Ossetia yesterday evening.
The action was attended by Head of State Anatoly Bibilov, Presidential Envoy for Post-conflict Settlement Murat Dzhioev, Commissioner for Human Rights Inal Tasoev, families of the missing citizens of South Ossetia, residents of Tskhinval.
In front of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the participants lit candles in memory of their relatives and friends.
Anatoly Bibilov said in an interview with reporters that the search for the missing would continue.
“In this direction, the work is underway within the framework of the IPRM and the Geneva Discussions. And every time the South Ossetian raises the question of clarifying the fate of the missing, we receive assurances that the Georgian leadership will extradite some persons, but these promises are not being fulfilled. There are video footage showing the beating of the South Ossetian citizens by the Georgian policemen in 2008,” Bibilov said.
The head of state noted that the international community should also join in the solution of this issue, toughly raising the problematic issue with the Georgian authorities, up to the introduction of sanctions.
Anatoly Bibilov has stressed that it is very painful for a person to know nothing about the fate of his loved one.
The event was organized by the Committee of the Missing Persons with the assistance of the Representation of the International Red Cross in the Republic.
It should be reminded that last year a memorial to the missing was erected in the square in front of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tskhinval.
Since the early 1990s, 130 people are listed missing in South Ossetia, after the war in August 2008 - seven.
