Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan’s Facebook status:
Taking into account the questions addressed to me, I will publish data on the citizens of the Republic of Artsakh who died, went missing, were taken captive, and returned from captivity as a result of Azerbaijani aggression.
According to the data obtained by the Artsakh Human Rights Defender as a result of fact-finding work launched on September 27, 2007, 750 citizens of the Republic of Artsakh were killed as a result of Azerbaijani aggression, of whom 81 were civilians. Forty-two of them were killed by long-range strikes by the Azerbaijani armed forces, including rockets, shelling, bombing, and sabotage. Thirty-nine were captured by Azeris, or at least under Azeri control, and they were killed by physical violence, stabbing, beheading, and close-range shooting. The number of fallen soldiers includes people whose information was transferred to the Soldiers’ Insurance fund.
163 civilians were wounded. We do not currently have information on the number of wounded soldiers.
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