"Today, our liberated territories are seriously under the threat of landmines," said Ramil Azizov, head of ANAMA's education, international and public relations department as he delivered speech at "Human Rights - 75 Baku Conference: Promoting universality and indivisibility to address global and national challenges," APA reports.
He said that today about 300 thousand Azerbaijani citizens have settled along the areas that was previously called as the contact line: “There are some villages where the distance between the mine line and village is 50-70 meters. After the Patriotic War, 337 Azerbaijani citizens died or suffered various degrees of bodily injuries as a result of mine explosions. And since 1991, 3415 of citizens of Azerbaijan have been killed or injured as a result of mine explosions.”
Ramil Azizov reminded that during the past periods, in addition to measures aimed at exterminating the mines buried in Azerbaijan’s territories, various meetings and conferences were held and reports were published regarding the fact that mines were manufactured in Armenia: “It is pleasant that the manufacturing of these mines in Armenia has already been confirmed. Our territories are not only contaminated with mines. Also, them installing any imaginable explosive ordnance and devices in forests, cemeteries, river banks, etc. to various household items pose threats. This is not only a landmine problem, but it is a problem against humanity.”
"More than 110,000 mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) have been detected and neutralized in the liberated territories of Azerbaijan since the Patriotic War. More than 100,000 hectares of land have been cleared. In total, more than 8,000 square kilometers of our territory is considered suspicious and contaminated," he said.
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