"3,890 Azerbaijani citizens were registered by State Commission as missing persons in the First Karabakh War as a result of Armenia's military aggression against Azerbaijan. 3,171 of them were servicemen, 719 were civilians, 71 of the civilians were minors, 267 were women, while 326 were elderly people," said Ismayil Akhundov, Secretary of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, head of the Working Group at a conference today on "Identification of missing persons - Humanitarian approach" dedicated to the August 30 - International Day of the Disappeared with an organization of the State Commission regarding prisoners of war, hostages and missing persons, APA reports.
Ismayil Akhundov has added that 872 persons from the missing people in the First Karabakh War, including 29 children, 98 women, and 112 elderly people were taken hostage or remained in occupied territories. Released hostages and captives later confirmed that they has seen them alive: "Armenia hid information about these persons from international organization during the whole period of conflict, avoided to provide information about their future fate. Only after Trilateral Statement signed on November 10, 2020, the opposite side handed over mixed human remains, which are supposed to belong to 138 persons missing in the First Karabakh War."
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