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Families of civilian victims of the recent Artsakh war have not benefited from any social assistance program thus far, Artsakh Human Rights Ombudsman Artak Beglaryan said late on Tuesday.

“Now we are finalizing a special report on civilians killed by the Azerbaijani armed forces, the public version of which will include all the basic personal data and brief descriptions of events, while the closed version of the report will include many pre-mortem and post-mortem photos,” he wrote on Facebook.

“We will publish the report in the morning, I hope that tomorrow we will have time to publish two more reports as a summary of some of our fact-finding activity.

“In this context, I would like to emphasize that the Republic of Artsakh and the Republic of Armenia should promptly make legislative changes and grant a specific status to civilian victims and their families. To date, the families of civilian victims have not benefited from any social assistance program, while they, too, have fallen victim to the enemy's crimes, many of them in the line of duty,” the ombudsman added.

Beglaryan announced his decision to step down as Artsakh ombudsman earlier on Tuesday to assume a new position in the government.