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    LET YOUR HOPE COME TRUE

    Azat Artsakh - Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
    01 July 05


    For six years now June 29 is the Day of the Missing Azatamartiks.
    Every year on this day the friends and relatives of the missing gather
    at the Memorial to the missing soldiers to pay homage to their memory
    and utter words of consolation, waiting for their sons to come back
    one day. On June 29, 2005 again a lot of people gathered at the
    memorial. NKR President Arkady Ghukassian accompanied by the top
    officials of the country visited the memorial at 11 oclock. Wreaths on
    behalf of the NKR government, the Ministry of Defence, the Police,
    different enterprises and NGOs were laid to the memorial. In his
    address the head of the department for military and patriotic training
    and public relations of the NKR Ministry of Defence, Colonel Robert
    Baghrian said the issue of the missing emerged on the days of the
    temporary setback in June 1992 when the squad Arabo crashed near the
    village of Hasanghaya, Martakert region. Their fate, as well as the
    fate of hundreds of our countrymen has been unknown for 13 years
    now. For those people who have lost a close person every minute of
    waiting is unbearable, whereas they have been waiting for many years
    now. In his address the minister of defence Seyran Ohanian said on the
    way to the liberation of Artsakh and independence we had to make a lot
    of sacrifices. The independence cost human lives. A lot of men were
    martyred for the peoples dream to come true. Many of those who set out
    on this way were destined to acquire the title of missing. It is
    painful and hard that the notion of POW became part of the everyday
    life of our people. According to the defence minister, the
    establishment of the Union of the Missing Azatamartiks was dictated by
    the time. The Union is aimed to resume and coordinate the search for
    the missing soldiers and citizens, find out their exact number, create
    their personal files, mediate and participate in the negotiations and
    return of the POWs and hostages. In December 2000 the NKR Commission
    on Hostages and the Missing was set up by the decree of the NKR
    president to fill the gap in coordination of the search for the
    missing. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also
    assisted to the work as a mediator.

    LAURA GRIGORIAN.
    01-07-2005
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