AZERI AUTHORITIES EXPLOIT ARMENIAN WAR CAPTIVES MERCILESSLY, DECLARED TODAY ARMENIAN SPECIAL SERVICES

PanARMENIAN.Net - 16.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. All Azeri war captives in Armenia are under state control and guardianship of International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), all humanitarian and right-protecting organizations, including Azeri ones, have free access to them. It is said about this in the statement of the public relations service of the MNS of Armenia, received by MEDIAMAX today.

Armenian special services declare that Azeri captives get normal nourishment and necessary medical aid in the MNS isolation ward. "They are neither tortured, nor beaten or taunted. They are not compelled to backbreaking toil, while Armenian war captives and hostages in Azerbaijan are mercilessly exploited at the construction of new buildings of Gobustan jail and Karadagh stone quarries. No one takes clothing and footwear, granted by ICRC, away from them. One an easily see this, just comparing the appearance, physical and moral condition of prisoners, released from Armenia and Azerbaijan" - reads the statement.

"Despite incessant slanderous persuasions of Azeri representatives, there is not and has never been such number of Azeri war captives and prisoners in Armenia in captivity, as indicated by Azerbaijan, while we have serious, irrefutable proofs of falsity of the statements of Azeri authorities concerning that fact that there are no Armenian war captives and hostages in Azerbaijan, hidden from ICRC, OSCE and other international organizations", - declare the Armenian special services. --0--