Karabakh rights activist denies Azeri colleague’s "mass grave" report
Regnum, Moscow
5 Aug 06
A rights activist from Nagornyy Karabakh has denied a report by his
Azerbaijani colleague that "a mass grave of Azerbaijani soldiers
has been found in the vicinity of the village of Marzili in Agdam
District".
Regnum news agency has quoted the coordinator of the Nagornyy Karabakh
committee of the Helsinki Initiative-92, Karen Ogandzhanyan, as saying
that rumours on possible graves have been in fact disseminated, but
for the time being there are no facts about "precisely where and how
many". Ogandzhanyan said he was surprised where the chairman of the
Azerbaijani national committee of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly,
Arzu Abdullayeva, had obtained this information from. At the same
time, Ogandzhanyan expressed confidence that the Azerbaijani media
ascribed this statement to Abdullayeva as the rights activists had
had experience of this kind in the past as well.
A report posted on KavkazWeb.net website on 4 August also quoted
Abdullayeva as saying that 21 Azerbaijanis had been buried in a mass
grave in the vicinity of the village of Marzili in Agdam District. One
of them has been identified as an officer of the Sumqayit regiment,
Lt Aliyev, the website said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
