ICRC updates list of missing persons who disappeared during Karabakh conflict
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has presented to the parties to the Karabakh conflict an updated list of the persons disappeared in the conflict zone prior to the introduction of the ceasefire regime in 1994.
The previous list was submitted in 2004, and since that time, the ICRC continued to work with Commissions on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the representative office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Baku.
The updated list of missing persons has included the names of 4496 people, and it is based on the data on missing persons, registered at the representative offices of the ICRC in Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as at the ICRC mission in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported by Ilakha Guseinova, the chief of the press service of the Baku office of the Red Cross.
Out of 4496, 405 people were registered by the Yerevan office of the ICRC, 372 by the ICRC mission in Nagorno-Karabakh, and 3719 by the representative office in Azerbaijan.
In February, Sarah Eppreht, the head of the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Armenia, has announced that one of the priorities of the ICRC is to discover the fate of about 4500 people considered missing as a result of the Karabakh conflict.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.