О пропавшем без вести в Афгане Бекболатове Куате Нурмухашевиче

Satai Bekbolatov sent us photographs of his brother, who went missing in Afghanistan. Former prisoner of war Mikhail Govtva used these photographs to identify his fellow prisoner. We have published two excerpts from Mikhail Govtva's interview in which he mentions Kuat. Abdul Manaf (Kuat Bekbolatov) refused the services of the Red Cross. Apparently, this was not the first time Red Cross workers had approached him with this offer. Subsequently, we learned that Mr. Delapraz, an employee of the International Red Cross, had spoken with Soviet prisoners in the Peshawar prison and offered them the services of the ICRC in 1983. This played a decisive role in Mikhail Govtva's fate, in particular. He was deported to a disciplinary battalion in Switzerland. Two years later, he returned to the USSR. This circumstance has now allowed Kuat Bekbolatov's brother to contact the ICRC office with a request to know his fate, which remains unknown. Kuat Nurmukashevich BEKBOLATOV, private, born in 1963 at the Kommunism state farm in the Alakul district of Taldykorgan, Kazakh SSR. Kazakh. Conscripted on May 10, 1981 by the Alakul Regional Military Commissariat. Served in the Republic of Afghanistan since August 1981. Went missing in action on March 10, 1982, in Parwan province. Mikhail Govtv's two full interviews will be published later. Become a channel sponsor and you will gain access to exclusive bonuses. Learn more:    / @barkhanov_evgenii   "Afghanistan, Missing in Action" is a project implemented with a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society, provided by the Presidential Grants Fund.