Law enforcers identify 134 persons killed in Chechnya in 1990s

Today, more than 200 relatives of the people who fell victim to the counterterrorist operation in Chechnya have come from 59 regions of Russia and gathered at the Bogorodskoe cemetery in the Moscow Region to honour the memory of the victims. The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported on the identification of 134 people killed in 1994-1996 in Chechnya and buried unidentified.

According to the Russian government's decision, the administration of the Bogorodskoe cemetery allocated a place to bury remains of the bodies of 266 soldiers, killed in the line of military duty in Chechnya in 1994-1996 and not identified. On September 25, 2000, the memorial to the killed Russian soldiers was built at that place.

"As a result of the activities of the Russian MoD, 134 persons of the buried victims were identified. Of them, 86 were reburied at places of their residence at requests of their relatives," reported Major General Valery Kudinsky, the deputy chief of the Russian MoD's department for commemoration of soldiers and officers perished while defending the Motherland.

According to Major General Valery Kudinsky, "the military section of the cemetery still has 118 graves of unidentified soldiers and officers."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.