Atchkoy Martan, Chechnya. A family receives a Red Cross message written by a close relation in detention. Organizing the exchange of such messages and visits for the families of detainees are ways of helping separated family members to restore and maintain contact with one another. Although no exact figures are available on the number of people who have gone missing in Chechnya, disappearances are undeniably taking place. The ICRC has already made its concerns known to the competent authorities and intends to pursue its dialogue with them so that the families will receive the answers to which they are entitled. Among those missing is Usman Saidaliev, a Chechen employee of the ICRC, who has not been heard from since August 2003.