Azerbaijan said it has discovered what it claimed is a mass grave of its soldiers allegedly executed by Armenian separatist forces during the 1990s war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“A mass grave of Azerbaijani servicemen tortured and executed during the first Karabakh war was discovered in the village of Edilli,” Hikmet Hajiyev, the foreign policy adviser to President Ilham Aliyev, said on Wednesday on Twitter.
He said 4,000 Azerbaijani soldiers and civilians remain missing from the war in the 1990s. “Armenia refuses to disclose the locations of mass graves,” he said.
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