Nagorno-Karabakh
Casualties
Casualties Overview
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All known casualties by end 2015 |
At least 358 mine/explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties (77 killed; 281 injured) |
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Casualties occurring in 2016 |
1 (2015: 5) |
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2016 casualties by survival outcome |
1 injured (2015: 1 killed; 4 injured) |
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2016 casualties by device type |
1 antivehicle mine |
HALO Trust reported one military mine casualty in 2016, an adult male who was injured by an antivehicle mine. HALO is aware of other military accidents that occurred in 2016, including one fatality, however it was not possible to collect the information.[1]
HALO reported five mine/ERW casualties in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2015.[2]
A total of 368 casualties (77 killed) have been recorded from 1995 to the end of 2016.[3] After 2002, antivehicle mines caused the majority of annual mine/ERW incidents.[4] Mine incidents in Nagorno-Karabakh often occurred in areas outside the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet period.[5]
Cluster munition casualties
No unexploded cluster submunition casualties were reported in 2016. Unexploded submunitions caused at least 17 casualties between 1995 and 2015.[6] New submunition casualties were reported in 2015 and 2013.
[1] Email from Ash Boddy, Regional Director, HALO Trust, 6 April 2017.
[2] Ibid. Five casualties in 2015 were revised based on updated information. In 2016, the Monitor had recorded seven casualties for 2015.
[3] Monitor analysis of data received from HALO 6 April 2017.
[4] Emails from Andrew Moore, HALO, 8 July 2014, 25 June 2013, 6 April 2011, and 25 February 2010; from Nick Smart, HALO, 10 April 2012; from Matthew Hovell, Caucasus and Balkans Desk Officer, HALO, 8 July 2009; and from Valon Kumnova, Program Manager, HALO, 6 April 2007. In 2014, it was also reported that since the signing of the ceasefire, 365 civilians, including 91 children, had been casualties of mines/ERW. “HALO Trust: at least 13 people fell victim to mine explosions in NKR in 2014,” Caucasian Knot, 7 January 2015; and Landmine Free Artsakh, “News,” undated.
[5] Clearance is largely restricted to areas within the boundary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet period due to donor funding constraints and the casualties occurring in areas that HALO did not have resources to clear.
[6] Emails from Nick Smart, HALO, 10 April 2012; from Andrew Moore, HALO, 25 February 2010, and 6 April 2011; from Matthew Hovell, HALO, 8 July 2009; and from Valon Kumnova, HALO, 6 April 2007.