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Armenians brutally torture Azerbaijani hostages

19 November 2014 13:00 (UTC+04:00)
Armenians brutally torture Azerbaijani hostages

By Sara Rajabova

The Karabakh War erupting after Armenia’s territorial claims against Azerbaijan left many people dead, disabled and displaced.

As a result of the Armenian aggression, there is still no information about the fate of thousands of Azerbaijanis who went missing or taken hostages during the bloody war.

The Azerbaijani government continues efforts to free the hostages and clarify the fate of missing people.

“As a result of over 20 years of works by the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, the remains of some of 1,400 Azerbaijani hostages were returned and some of them were freed from captivity,” Head of the Working Group of the State Commission Firudin Sadigov said.

He made the remark at a conference titled "Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: The world must know the truth", which was held at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Azerbaijan on November18.

He said as a result of wars and conflicts, many civilians are being killed and taken hostage along with the soldiers.

“Until now, more than 4,000 people are considered missing and today, the State Commission conducts searches for them,” he said.

Sadigov also added the Armenians subject hostages to brutal tortures and force them to do hard works. “The Armenians, who went through school of terror around the world, used the monstrous torture against Azerbaijanis,” he said.

He further noted that the Armenian side raises various obstacles in the way of search for missing Azerbaijanis.

If the Armenian side cannot find the missing, at least it should give an opportunity to Azerbaijani state commission to come to Khankendi and find both Azerbaijanis and Armenians missing in those areas, he emphasized.

As of November 1, 2014, the number of Azerbaijanis taken captive, hostage, or being lost stood at 4,016 including 3,256 servicemen and 758 civilians and it's unknown whether the remaining two were civilians or servicemen.

Among the missing civilians, 59 are children (17 girls), 254 women, and 351 elderly people (154 women). Among 4,016 people who have gone missing, 877 are reported to have been taken either captive or hostage. During the conflict, 1,419 people were released (347 female, 1,072 male, including 207 children, 287 elderly people).

The analysis of data received by the Azerbaijani State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons showed that 554 people (104 women, 449 men) were found out to have either been killed in captivity or died of various reasons. Among them, only the names of 137 people are known, while 75 others have not yet been identified.

The bloody war, which flared up in the late 1980s due to Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor, left displaced thousands of Azerbaijani civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Azerbaijanis who had displaced from their homes as a result of the brutal war were forced to live in refugee camps, tents and wagons in very difficult conditions. They are temporarily settled in more than 1,600 settlements across 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.

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