A mass grave was found this week following the excavation works carried out by Azerbaijan’s armed forces on the Farrukh top in Azerbaijan’s Khojaly district.
Azerbaijan’s State Fee on Prisoners of Struggle, Hostages, and Lacking Individuals reported that the human stays might belong to the Azerbaijani servicemen who went lacking in the course of the First Karabakh Struggle with Armenia within the early Nineteen Nineties.
“Within the battles for the Farrukh top within the First Karabakh Struggle, 62 Azerbaijani servicemen have been registered as lacking by the State Fee on Prisoners of Struggle, Hostages, and Lacking Individuals,” reads a assertion issued on Thursday.
“Making an allowance for the opportunity of mass graves in and across the Farrukh top, a gaggle of specialists plans to hold out related search and exhumation actions within the space.”
In 1992-1993, the Farrukh top and the village of the identical identify reportedly staged bloody clashes between the Azerbaijani armed forces and Armenian army, joined by mercenaries from Lebanon and Syria.
The destiny of most members of the Azerbaijani self-defense models and Particular Police Forces preventing the Armenian occupants remained unknown till the Azerbaijani forces just lately reclaimed Farrukh.
The peak turned a stronghold for the unlawful Armenian armed detachments that actively concentrated within the space and violated the peace with common armed assaults on the Azerbaijani positions. On March 27, the Azerbaijani military cleared the Farrukh village from the unlawful Armenian gangs and reclaimed full management over it.
Armenia and Azerbaijan had been locked in a decades-old armed battle over the latter’s Karabakh (Garabagh) area. Following the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991, Armenia launched full-blown army aggression towards Azerbaijan, marking the longest and deadliest warfare within the South Caucasus area. The bloody warfare ended with a ceasefire in 1994, which noticed Armenia forcibly occupying 20 % of Azerbaijan’s internationally acknowledged territories. Over 30,000 Azerbaijanis have been killed, 3,890 went lacking, and a million others have been expelled from these lands in a brutal ethnic cleaning coverage carried out by Armenia.
On September 27, 2020, the Armenia-Azerbaijan battle took a violent flip when Armenia’s forces deployed within the occupied Azerbaijani lands shelled army positions and civilian settlements of Azerbaijan. Throughout the counter-attack operations that lasted 44 days, Azerbaijani forces liberated over 300 settlements, together with the cities of Jabrayil, Fuzuli, Zangilan, Gubadli, and Shusha, from almost 30-year-long unlawful Armenian occupation. The warfare ended with the signing of a tripartite assertion by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia on November 10, 2020. Underneath the settlement, Armenia additionally returned the occupied Aghdam, Kalbajar, and Lachin districts to Azerbaijan.
Based on knowledge compiled by the Azerbaijani authorities, 3,890 Azerbaijani residents, together with 71 youngsters, 267 girls, and 326 older adults, went lacking in the course of the First Karabakh Struggle from 1991 to 1994. Baku has been demanding that Armenia help in investigating the destiny of these individuals, a request that is still unfulfilled.
Publish-war searches within the liberated territories unearthed the stays of 12 civilians within the Kalbajar district, the place the Armenian armed forces dedicated the Bashlibel mass homicide in 1993. As well as, earlier this yr, mass graves of the Azerbaijanis have been discovered within the Dashalti village close to Shusha metropolis and the Edilli village of the Khojavand district.
Based on knowledge launched by the State Fee on Prisoners of Struggle, Hostages, and Lacking Individuals, 46 Azerbaijani servicemen went lacking in the Pirlar village of the Khojaly district within the Nineteen Nineties. On the identical time, 11 Azerbaijani servicemen went lacking within the Aliaghali village of the Aghdam district. The fee is satisfied that these areas may very well be residence to the stays of Azerbaijani servicemen who went lacking in the course of the First Karabakh Struggle.
Specialists in Baku consider that the mass graves of Azerbaijanis killed by Armenians may very well be discovered in additional places within the Karabakh area, together with within the Khojavand, Khankendi, Khojaly, Fuzuli, Shusha, and Aghdam districts.
