At the today’s meeting in the Parliamentary Commission of Armenia on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs, within the discussion “The rights of Artsakh migrants from the occupied regions”, Permanent Representative of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia Sergey Gazaryan has presented the updated figures concerning victims of the Karabakh war among the citizens of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in the autumn of 2020.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on September 27, marked one year since the start of the Karabakh war in 2020.

According to the Sergey Gazaryan’s information, 742 soldiers and officers, residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, were killed in the 44-day war. 45 are considered missing. According to Sergey Gazaryan, 80 civilians fell victim to the war. 38 citizens are being kept in Azerbaijan as prisoners.

More than two dozen civilians from Karabakh have gone missing, although they did not take part in the war, said Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson Gegam Stepanyan in his comment to the “Azatutyun” Radio Station*. “These are mainly elderly or disabled people who did not manage to leave their houses when the Azerbaijani armed forces rushed there. These are residents of the Gadrud, Shushi, and Askeran District of Karabakh. Azerbaijan did not give out their bodies to the Armenian side and did not provide any information about them,” claimed Sergey Gazaryan as translated from the Armenian language by the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

* A fragment of a message created and disseminated by a foreign mass media outlet acting as a foreign agent.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on September 29, 2021 at 12:10 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.