Expedition chief: Research to be expanded at mass grave site in Shusha

The scope of research at the site of the mass grave in Shusha will be expanded, Akif Guliyev, scientific secretary of the Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography, and Anthropology of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and head of the Khojavand-Fuzuli archaeological expedition, told journalists.

On June 2 human remains were found on the territory of Shusha prison after the research was launched in the area, Report quotes him as saying.

"According to eyewitnesses, during the First Karabakh War Azerbaijani citizens were held here, and the dead were buried on the territory of the prison. Preliminary investigations have revealed that three or four people were buried here. The scope of research will be expanded and information about the results will be provided. There is also information about the burials of Azerbaijani citizens in other territories. Investigations will also be carried out there," Guliyev said.

Jamaleddin Huseynov, an Azerbaijani taken hostage during the First Karabakh War and brutally tortured in a Shusha prison, has told of the atrocities committed by Armenians.

Jamaleddin Huseynov told journalists about the terrible events he had witnessed.

He noted that in 1993, he was 12 years old, when Armenians occupied the village of Giyasli of Aghdam district, as a result of which he was also captured by Armenians: "We were brought to Asgaran, and after being held there for a week, we were taken to Shusha prison. After we were brought to the Shusha prison, we saw that it was packed with girls, young women, children, and old people. They tortured all of us with particular cruelty. The Armenians forced us to take the corpses of the dead out of the prison, and then they raked them up with excavators and threw them into the common pits. I saw with my own eyes how they cut open the bellies of pregnant women and gave them to pigs to eat".