Alen Simonyan: 3,833 people  killed in 44-day war of 2020

ArmInfo.  National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan expressed   "sincere" surprise that when representatives of the previous government and public figures voiced the death toll during the 44-day war, journalists did not  submit inquiries. However, when he published what he claimed were  official figures from the Investigative Committee, many attempted to  dispute these figures.

According to Simonyan, 3,833 people were killed in the 44-day war of  2020. According to him, 3,755 of these were military personnel and 78  civilians. The whereabouts of 191 people remain unknown, including  172 military personnel and 19 civilians, the Speaker of the National  Assembly added.

Previously, in April 2022, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that  3,825 people had been killed.  According to the Investigative  Committee, as of March 21, 2022, the death toll among Armenian  military personnel and civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia  stands at 3,822, with the whereabouts of 187 military personnel and  21 civilians  unknown. However, according to the Armenian opposition,  the death toll exceeds 5,000.

In this regard, journalists in parliament today asked about the  discrepancies between the figures published by the Speaker, Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Andranik Kocharyan, head of the ad hoc  parliamentary commission investigating the 2020 war.

"I have published these figures based on data from the Investigative  Committee of Armenia. The Prime Minister also mentioned these  figures, with a slight discrepancy. And the difference isn't 1,200  people.  After the statements by Prime Minister and Kocharyan's, the  numbers have changed due to DNA tests being conducted. They may  continue to change, as we currently have 191 missing persons. God  willing, they'll all be miraculously found and returned," Simonyan  stated.

In response to journalists' comments that the public is demanding the  names of the dead be made public, not just the numbers, Simonyan  noted that these are personal details. He added that they might be  published at a later time.