AUGUST 30 - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DISAPPEARED
Baku, August 31 (AZERTAC). The International Day of the Disappeared on August 30 is an annual commemoration day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives.
The impulse for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared, a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 in Costa Rica as an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment and forced disappearances in a number of Latin-American countries.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) continues its efforts to gather information about the persons missing in connection with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
The Azerbaijan State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing People registered 4090 prisoners of war, hostages and missing people to June 1, 2010. 3297 of them are servicemen while 787 civilians. Six were not identified. 48 people became missing in their childhood. 252 women and 353 elder, including 151 old women became missing. 1397, including 343 women and 1054 men were released. The State Commission analyzed the materials and clarified that 553 people, including 104 women and 448 men were killed or died in prison.
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