Around 1000 Armenians listed as MIA in Nagorno-Karabakh wars

YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, ARMENPRESS. Around 1000 Armenians are considered missing in the Nagorno-Karabakh wars, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The number includes both civilians and military personnel. 

ICRC Armenia Communications and Prevention Manager Zara Amatuni, citing information that has been submitted by the families of those missing, said that around 700 people are missing in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the 1990s, and around 300 are missing in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the subsequent hostilities in between 2020 and 2023. 

Amatuni made the comments during a photo exhibition in Vanadzor on the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared.

ICRC representatives are periodically visiting the Armenian detainees held in Azerbaijan. However, the ICRC visits those who are officially acknowledged by Azerbaijan as detainees. 

Azerbaijan has officially acknowledged that it is holding 23 Armenian captives. However, a senior Armenian law enforcement official said earlier this year that the number of Armenian captives in Baku is 55. The captives include former presidents of Nagorno-Karabakh Arkady Ghukasyan, Bako Sahakyan and Arayik Harutyunyan, as well as former State Minister Ruben Vardanyan and other officials.