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Azerbaijan has not yet announced a specific number of victims though 21 years have passed after the end of Karabakh war. The newspaper "Yeni Musavat" conducted its own investigation and found out that the major losses of the Azerbaijani army were on the Aghdam region, as well as at winter and spring of 1994 in Qelbajar. Because of the committed strategic errors, thousands of Azerbaijani fighters have been killed.

According to the newspaper, 20,000 people were lost at the Karabakh war in Azerbaijan, 50,000 were injured and 486 people are still missing. The most serious losses were in Aghdam region. There it reached 7,000.

"However, the losses are not limited with the period of hostilities only. After signing a cease-fire in 1994, the Azerbaijani army lost thousands of soldiers. According to our data, Azerbaijani army has lost more than 5,000 servicemen since 1995 up to now," the newspaper writes.

Azerbaijani officials often present different figures of casualties of armed forces suffered during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, in order to understate the number of losses. For example, if the previous President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev in June 1994 spoke of 21,000 deaths, than Ilham Aliyev in an interview to "Al Jazeera" (October 2011) stated about 13-15 thousand dead and missing Azerbaijanis. It is noteworthy that in February of 2007 a group of 9 Azerbaijani NGOs and 3 experts released their data, according to which in the course of hostilities in Karabakh 24,000 Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed, and another 4.5 thousand are missing.

Azerbaijani officials also present different numbers of disabled during the Karabakh war - from 10 to 50 thousand. Azerbaijani officials also called a different number of disabled Karabakh war - from 10 to 50 thousand.