A Year after the Discovery of the Mass Graves of the Victims of the Soviet Repressions
Tbilisi. Institute for Development of Freedom of Information publishes a blog post: A Year after the Discovery of the Mass Graves of the Victims of the Soviet Repressions.
“The discovery of the mass graves is very important event for Georgia. In general, the studies of the stories of the repressed persons, their proper commemoration and immortalization is an important and urgent issue in the post-Soviet region. In many countries, on the execution and burial sites, there are complexes of memorials and the governments support the commemoration of the repressed, educational and the other types of events. All of these have a key role in the formation of collective memory of the countries and the rethinking of the totalitarian past. The graves discovered in Khelvachauri is the first discovery of this kind in Georgia, which requires an appropriate attention from the state”.
Source: idfi.ge
