(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 6. Military attachés
accredited to Azerbaijan visited a mass grave containing the
remains of Azerbaijani servicemen in the Edilli village of
Khojavand district upon the initiative of the Ministry of Defense
of Azerbaijan and with the organizational support of the State
Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, on
October 6, reports.
Chief of the International Military Cooperation Department of
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense, Major General Huseyn Mahmudov
briefed the military representatives of foreign countries on the
gross violations of the international humanitarian law principles
by the Armenian armed formations and armed forces, which were
illegally deployed in Azerbaijan's territory during the first
Karabakh war.
The remains of 12 people were discovered at the mass grave site.
The items found near the remains suggest the buried were servicemen
whose hands and feet were tied before death.
Major General Mahmudov noted that the fate of nearly 4,000
civilians and prisoners of war who went missing as a result of the
Armenian aggression remains unknown.
Later, military attachés paid a visit to the military unit and
got acquainted with the conditions created there for the military
personnel.
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