Remains of dead Azerbaijanis exhumed from 6 mass graves in liberated territories

Together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), there are plans to carry out exhumation of six mass graves in which Azerbaijani citizens who were reported missing during the First Karabakh War were buried, Ismayil Akhundov, the Secretary of the Azerbaijan State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Citizens, and head of the working group, said at the conference "Identification of missing persons - a humanitarian approach" dedicated to the International Day of Disappeared, Report informs.

He noted that the work on the exhumation of the remains is being carried out by the State Commission within a joint project with the Baku office of the ICRC in the liberated territories of Azerbaijan: "The location of six common graves has been established with geographical accuracy. Presumably, Azerbaijani citizens killed during the First Karabakh War, whose fate is still unknown, are buried in them."