At the time of the mass graves of Boutcha and Izioum, the discovery has an even stronger resonance.
But the mass grave excavated by Azerbaijan in Edilli actually dates from the early 1990s. indicated on Wednesday on Twitter Hikmet Hajiyev, diplomatic adviser to President Ilham Aliyev.
According to him, 4,000 Azerbaijanis remain missing since this first war.
He accused Armenia of refusing to disclose the location of mass graves.
An official of the Azerbaijani Commission on Prisoners of War, Namig Efendiyev, said that 25 bodies had been discovered since February in the mass grave in Edilli.
A bumpy story
This announcement comes as tensions have flared up between Armenia and Azerbaijan in recent weeks.
Fighting killed more than 280 people in September, raising fears of a new major war between the two countries.
On Sunday, Yerevan accused Baku of committing "war crimes" in recent clashes, including executing and torturing captured Armenian soldiers.
In response, Baku announced the opening of an investigation by its military prosecutor's office into possible abuses.
These two ex-Soviet republics of the Caucasus clashed during a first war for the control of Nagorny Karabakh, at the beginning of the 1990s, which had made 30,000 dead and had never really been settled.
In the fall of 2020, they clashed again on a large scale for this mountainous region, officially located in Azerbaijan but populated mainly by Armenians.
This last war left 6,500 dead and ended in a defeat for Yerevan, which lost territories in and around Nagorny Karabakh, where 2,000 Russian peacekeepers were deployed after a ceasefire. signed under the aegis of Moscow.
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