AZERBAIJAN KEEPS ARMENIAN PRISONERS OF WAR AS SLAVES

Panorama.am
16:28 11/04/06

The UNO proclaimed April 11 as day of those missing or those
kept in slavory. Today Armenia also remembers those missing after
Karabakh war. Today there are about 130 Armenian prisoners of war
in Azerbaijan. The data has been published by deputy chairman of
“Community and law” public organization Souren Hovhannisyan.

“At first Azeri government condemned Armenian prisoners of war and
sentenced them to 15 years, later they announced that there are no
prisoners of war in Azerbaijan which brought to a deadlock,” S.

Hovhannisyan says. The latter also informed that in the course of
meetings with Azeri mothers of those missing it became known that
Armenian prisoners are used as free man power.

As the head of department of Social Defence of Soldiers colonel
Harutyun Balayan says once the real location of prisoners of war was
already ascertained and when the community learned about it Azeri
government transferred the prisoners to another place.

A. Balayan did not exclude that there are Armenian prisoners of war not
only on the territory of Azerbaijan but Turkey as well.