Pashinyan Says Armenia Needs International Expertise to Identify Remains of Fifty War Dead
Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at today’s government cabinet session, said that all attempts to DNA identify the remains of fifty individuals killed in last year’s Karabakh war had failed, and that the government would have to call in international experts.
Pashinyan opened the cabinet session by referring to recent revelations that the remains of dead Armenian servicemen, killed in last year’s war, had been stored in improper conditions at the Abovyan Forensic Medical Center. The fundamental question that I think should be answered is whether this reflects the attitude of the state or the government towards the fallen soldiers, the dead in general, said Pashinyan, who then asked Acting Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan to present what reforms had taken place in this field since 2018.