AZERBAIJAN KEEPS ARMENIAN PRISONERS OF WAR AS SLAVES

Panorama.am

16:28 11/04/06

The UNO proclaimed April 11 as day of those missing or those kept in slavory. Today Armenia also

remembers those missing after Karabakh war. Today there are about 130 Armenian prisoners of war in

Azerbaijan. The data has been published by deputy chairman of "Community and law" public organization

Souren Hovhannisyan.

"At first Azeri government condemned Armenian prisoners of war and sentenced them to 15 years, later

they announced that there are no prisoners of war in Azerbaijan which brought to a deadlock,"

S. Hovhannisyan says. The latter also informed that in the course of meetings with Azeri mothers of

those missing it became known that Armenian prisoners are used as free man power.

As the head of department of Social Defence of Soldiers colonel Harutyun Balayan says once the real

location of prisoners of war was already ascertained and when the community learned about it Azeri

government transferred the prisoners to another place.

A. Balayan did not exclude that there are Armenian prisoners of war not only on the territory of

Azerbaijan but Turkey as well.

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