Salome Achba
“The Missing People” is a new documentary of Human Rights Center video portal HRIDC.TV the premiere of which took place in the Cinema House on October 9th. Giorgi Janelidze’s movie covers the problems of investigation for finding people lost during the war in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region.
The premiere of “The Missing People” in the Cinema House was attended by the movie participants, family members of missing people, representatives of diplomatic corpus and NGOs.
“47 minute movie was made with the support of Eurasia Partnership Fund. The filming continued for two months. This movie was emotionally very hard for the whole crew. We visited families of missing people and shared their pain,” – stated Giorgi Janelidze to the journalists after presenting the movie.
“The Missing People” examines the problems of citizens lost after the war in Georgia; it describes the specifics and results of work of those NGOs which are involved in the process of finding lost. The movie reflects those problems and pain that the family members of lost people are going through. The state should be most involved and interested in the process of finding lost, but as the movie shows, these problems are forgotten by everyone and consequently, the whole process of finding is protracted.
“These people have right to know the truth. I’m not saying that someone knows the truth and hides it, but the fact is that the process of finding lost is very slow. The ways should be found so that families learn the truth,” – states Giorgi Janelidze.
Nindeli Andriadze, representative of Fund “Molodini” (Waiting) founded for finding lost people, had a son lost in the Abkhazia was. She thinks that society and government should pay more attention to this problem: “The families of people lost in Abkhazia war are in a particularly hard situation. 1900 people were lost in that war. When the country has so many lost people, international organizations and government should be more active in solving these problems.”
“I want to thank the authors of the movie and the whole crew for sharing the tragedy of my family and for making such movie. Thanks for telling public about this. Support of society is very important for families like us,” – states Ketevan Sukhitashvili, mother of one of the lost person Otar Sukhitashvili.
As the crew members of the movie state, their main purpose was to reveal the problem around the issue. As for the problem solution and answering the questions, this obligation, in the first place, is imposed on the state.
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