Karabakh Unearths a Mass Grave Discovered by Azerbaijan
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Azerbaijani reports said Wednesday that a mass grave was discovered in the village of Karabakh.
The mass grave, where the remains of four people were found, was discovered in Sarigale village of Agdam district, according to the official news agency Azartak.
The victims were discovered during demining operations in the area, Azartak reports, citing the press service of the country’s prosecutor’s office.
The Azerbaijani State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons has started work on identifying the remains and searching for more of what might be discovered so far.
Another mass grave was discovered in the same village in Aghdam last year.
The Karabakh region has been the scene of mass killings and burials since the First Karabakh War in the early 1990s, most notably the Khojaly massacre by Armenian forces.
A two-hour Armenian attack on the city of Khojaly killed 613 Azerbaijani citizens — including 106 women, 63 children, and 70 elderly people — and seriously injured 487 others, according to Azerbaijani figures.
About 150 of the 1,275 Azerbaijanis captured by the Armenians during the massacre are still missing, while eight families have been completely wiped out.
Relations between the two former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian army occupied Nagorno-Karabakh – a region internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven neighboring regions, including Agdam.
In the fall of 2020, in 44 days of fighting, Azerbaijan liberated many cities, villages and settlements from the Armenian occupation. The Russian-brokered peace agreement is celebrated as a victory in Azerbaijan.