"After the Tripartite Statement, Armenia handed over the mixed remains, which are believed to belong to 138 people who went missing in the first Karabakh war," said Ismayil Akhundov, the Secretary and the head of the working group of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons, at the conference on "Identification of Missing Persons - Humanitarian Approach" dedicated to the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, on August 30, organized by the Commission, Report informs.
He said that 3,890 Azerbaijani citizens were registered as missing persons in the State Commission as a result of Armenia's military aggression against Azerbaijan in the First Karabakh War: "3,171 of them are soldiers, 719 are civilians, including 71 minors, 267 women, 326 elderly people."
"Out of the total number of missing persons in the First Karabakh War, 872 people, including 29 children, 98 women and 112 elderly people, were taken hostage or remained in the occupied territories. The prisoners and hostages who were released later confirmed that they saw those people alive. Armenia, throughout the conflict, hid information about these persons from international organizations and avoided providing information about their further fate. Only after the Tripartite Declaration signed on November 10, 2020, the Armenian side handed over the mixed remains, which are believed to belong to 138 people who went missing in the first Karabakh war," Akhundov added.