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| Remains of six more people were found in a mass grave in Khojaly |
| 2024-03-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The remains of six more people were found at the mass grave site in Khojaly, and the total number of discovered remains from the times of the first Karabakh war reached 10, the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan reported. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on February 21, the remains of four people, including a child, were discovered during excavations in the center of Khojaly. Presumably, these are the bodies of prisoners from the first Karabakh war, the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan reported. During further excavations in the center of Khojaly, on the site of a former furniture factory, where a mass burial of people had previously been discovered, on February 29, the remains of presumably a young child were discovered, and on March 1, the remains of five more people, a press employee told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today -services of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan. “Thus, the human remains found in the burial belong to 10 people. Two of them are presumably minors. Signs of violence were revealed on the remains,” he said. The discovered fragments of human bones have been sent for examination and laboratory research. “The Prosecutor General’s Office, together with other relevant authorities, continues to examine the scene of the incident in order to fully identify the human remains buried on the territory,” said an employee of the prosecutor’s office. The discovery of new remains strengthens speculation that Azerbaijanis captured during the Karabakh conflict in the 1990s are buried there, another law enforcement source told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. In 1991-1994, a large-scale war took place between Nagorno-Karabakh, which declared its independence, and Azerbaijan, according to the “Caucasian Knot” certificate, The beginning and end of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh.” Let us remind you that the Azerbaijani authorities periodically report on the discovery of new burial places of those killed during the first Karabakh war. Thus, on the Farrukh heights near the Karabakh village of the same name, in March 2022, the remains of presumably Azerbaijani soldiers who died in the first Karabakh war were found. In the village of Edilli of the Khojavend region (Armenian name - Ukhtadzor) of the Khojavend region (Armenian name - Martuni region), which came under the control of Azerbaijan in the fall of 2020, during search operations on September 14-28, 2022, three new burial places of victims of the 1991 Karabakh conflict were discovered -1994. Skeletons of six people were found in two burials, and 12 in one. As a result of the first Karabakh war, 3,800 people remain missing, the Baku office of the International Committee of the Red Cross reported in August 2023. Since the 2020 war, 500 human remains have been found in mass graves and 15 people have been identified. |
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