Russia & CIS General Newswire
January 19, 2008 Saturday 5:07 PM MSK
Azerbaijan: 97 Azeris held prisoner after N.-Karabakh conflict
BAKU Jan 19
Azerbaijan’s State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and
Missing in Action has announced that 97 Azeri citizens are held
prisoner on Azeri territories occupied in the course of the
Azeri-Armenian conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Also, 4,354 Azeris have been declared missing after the conflict and
783 of them are considered to have been taken either prisoner or
hostage, the commission said on its website.
In this number, 3,503 are known to be servicemen and 841 are known to
be civilians. It is unclear whether the remaining 10 are servicemen
or civilians, the commission said.
The commission said 550 people had died from various causes while in
captivity and that 1,393 had been released from captivity.