In Tbilisi, four persons, killed in special operation in Lopota Gorge, found buried

In the vicinities of the Tbilisi International Airport, a grave of four Chechens, killed during a special operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Ministry of Defence of Georgia in August 2012, was found. The killed men were buried in a narrow 9-meter pit. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Umar Idigov, a nephew of Djokhar Dudaev, First Chechen President, a member of the Chechen community in Georgia.

Till present, precise details of all persons, killed in the special operation, are unknown. On September 3, the Georgian MIA reported that two of the killed men were citizens of Georgia. Immediately after the incident, the Georgian media voiced a version, in accordance with which 6 of 11 killed men were residents of the Pankisi Gorge.

According to Umar Idigov, the grave of four Chechens was found on November 8, and the bodies were removed from the grave and given out to their relatives for reburial in accordance with Muslim customs.

"The bodies of four Chechen men were taken from the Lopota Gorge and buried in a place, where homeless people were usually buried," Umar Idigov said. He continued: "Mikhail Saakashvili said that they were buried in accordance with Muslim traditions, as it should be done. Actually, they were buried in their clothes in the narrow 9-meter pit they were buried in insulting way."