Sharjah24 – AFP: Azerbaijan said Wednesday it has discovered what it claims is a mass grave of its soldiers allegedly executed by Armenian separatist forces during the 1990s war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Baku and Yerevan fought two wars -- in 2020 and in the 1990s -- over the contested mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan.
"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 Wednesday on Twitter.
He said "4,000 Azerbaijani troops and civilians remain missing since the (1990s) war and Armenia refuses to disclose the locations of mass graves."
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