Relatives of disappeared Chechen residents receive 20 genetic passports

On March 12, in Grozny, a group of residents of Chechnya, whose relatives were kidnapped and disappeared during the period of hostilities, received their genetic passports. In the coming months, similar genetic passport will be issued to other 400 persons. This was reported by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The campaign of issuance of genetic passports to residents of Chechnya, whose relatives disappeared during the warfare in the territory of the republic, has been launched last spring. To date, more than 600 persons had their blood samples taken to obtain genetic passports.

"A genetic passport is a document containing more than 40 parameters of the genotype in addition to the personal data. Genetic passports have already helped to find out the fate of two persons of our republic Said-Abdula Sangariev and Musa Israilov, whose remains were buried in the Moscow Region," officials from the Chechen Forensic Bureau have emphasized.

Relatives of the disappeared people express the hopes that, thanks to genetic passports, they will finally be able to find out the fate of their disappeared family members.