Since 1988, Azerbaijan has been drawn into an armed conflict due to Armenia's groundless territorial claims and its occupation, and faced a large-scale humanitarian disaster, said Major General Sherafet Hasanov, Deputy Head of the State Security Service (SSS), during the presentation of the evaluation report on the search for missing persons in Azerbaijan by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), organized by the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons, SİA reports.
He stated that as a result of military operations, more than 19,000 of Azerbaijani citizens were killed or went missing, and over 65,000 people sustained various bodily injuries. "More than 900 settlements were completely destroyed, the infrastructure and ecology of the territories suffered damage worth billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of hectares of lands were contaminated with mines and unexploded ordnance.
During the period of conflict, Armenia's armed forces committed ethnic cleansing and genocide crimes, with the civilian Azerbaijani population being mass-murdered and after being captured as prisoners or hostages, they were held in inhuman conditions, subjected to horrific torture, deprivation, and treatment that violated the principles of humanitarianism. All these circumstances have led to our citizens going missing and their fate remaining uncertain to this day.
The fate of war victims, particularly our citizens who were taken as prisoners or hostages and went missing, has always been met with great sensitivity in our country. This issue has consistently been a focal point for the national leader of the Azerbaijani people, Heydar Aliyev, and later, for our esteemed President, Ilham Aliyev."
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