To designate the Red Cross’s International Day of the Disappeared,RFE/RL meets parents unable to bury their loved onesZura Batayeva carefully holds a small black-and-white photograph between her fingers. Creased and faded, it shows an earnest man with curly black hair.
The picture is all that remains of her son, and Visit Batayev,who disappeared without a trace shortly after Russian tanks rolled into Chechnya more than 20 years ago – launching the first of two devastating wars against separatist rebels in the North Caucasus republic.
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Source: theguardian.com