(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 6. Military attachés
accredited to Azerbaijan examined another mass burial site found in
the Edilli village of Khojavand district, 's Karabakh bureau
reports.
The foreign military representatives were accompanied by
employees of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and
Missing Persons, the Ministry of Defense, and the Association of
Forensic Medical Examination and Pathological Anatomy of the
Azerbaijani Ministry of Health.
Chief of the International Military Cooperation Department of
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense, Major General Huseyn Mahmudov
briefed the military attachés on the mass graves in the Edilli
village.
The major general stressed this is the third mass grave
discovered in the village. The two previous ones were found with
the remains of seven and six people, respectively, while the third
burial was discovered with the remains of 12 Azerbaijani servicemen
who were tortured to death.
The initial examination established the traumatic brain injuries
at the base of the skull caused by a blunt object, as well as
bullets and puncture wounds with a sharp instrument. The
investigation will continue, as nearly 4,000 of our compatriots
were reported missing during the first Karabakh war. The existence
of dozens of such graves in other districts of Karabakh is also
possible.
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