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    Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
    October 28, 2008 Tuesday



    CIRCUMSTANCES OF AZERI POWS CAPTURE STILL UNCLEAR


    An Azerbaijani soldier taken captive by Armenian armed forces on
    October 8 near Azerbaijans Gazakh district was unconscious during his
    meeting with representatives of the International Committee of the Red
    Cross, the POWs family said. The ICRC informed the parents of 19-year
    old Rafig Hasanov about this.

    His mother, Rubaba Hasanova, said the ICRC employees first met with
    her son a day after the capture. When they were registering the
    captives in their list, they couldnt talk to Rafig, as he was
    unconscious. On October 16, they called on him again. Then, my son
    dictated a letter to them, and they wrote down what he said, Hasanova
    said. The POWs family members also wrote a letter to the serviceman
    and passed it over to the employees of the ICRCs Barda office. Rahman
    Hasanov, the captives father, said his son was being mistreated by
    other soldiers and sergeants during military service, and that he had
    complained about this to the Gazakh military prosecutor. The
    servicemen questioned at the prosecutors office in this regard
    confirmed this, he said. As for the circumstances of his sons capture,
    Hasanov said he had not been provided with any information to that end
    either at the prosecutors office or the military unit where he was
    serving. In the morning on October 8, a brawl flared up between Rafig
    and the soldiers that were purportedly mistreating him. I went to the
    military unit, and even to the checkpoint. One of the servicemen told
    me there that my son had disappeared at around nine oclock, then he
    heard three bullet shots, but he did not say where the sound came
    from, Hasanov said.
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