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According to Karabakh police the incident occurred shortly before 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first fatal incident involving HALO personnel since the Britain-based charity began working in Karabakh almost two decades ago. Those killed are Pavel Akopov, Samson Avanesyan and Marat Petrosyan, with Garik Gohiryan and Aram Mkrtchyan seriously injured. All five were local staff. 168 local men and women were employed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halotrust.org\/minefreenk\/our-role-in-nagorno-karabakh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HALO Trust in Nagorno Karabakh<\/a>\u00a0as of February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Through its work in Karabakh, HALO helped reduce the number of mine incidents and associated casualties, having discovered and destroyed tens of thousands of mines and pieces of other unexploded ordinance over 18 years, while demarcating potential remaining minefields. If in the early 2000s, there would be 15 to 20 incidents annually, these numbers have declined to one to two in recent years. The previous deadly mine incident to involve civilians in Karabakh occurred in July 2014. In that incident, an SUV offroading in the north of Kashatagh district\u00a0ran over a tank mine, killing one and injuring three others.<\/p>\n<p>HALO\u2019s work has been funded by the U.S. government and private donations. The organization has set a goal of \u201cMine Free Nagorno Karabakh by 2020,\u201d although this effort has been complicated in last few years as populated areas in Karabakh came under renewed artillery fire from Azerbaijan, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halotrust.org\/minefreenk\/media-centre\/news\/halo-begins-emergency-clearance-in-karabakh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shelling with cluster munitions<\/a>\u00a0in April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The specific area of the March 29 incidents was the ruins of Ghazanchi, a formerly Armenian village that was a scene of intense fighting in the early 1990s. The village was first captured by Azerbaijani forces in March 1992, with its population escaping to the interior of Nagorno Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout most of 1992 the frontline ran between Ghazanchi and the nearby villages of Kichan and Srkhavend, with many areas mined by both sides. The Ghazanchi area was recaptured by Armenian forces in the spring of 1993, but the village remained in ruin with its former residents founding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hy.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D5%86%D5%B8%D6%80_%D5%82%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B9%D5%AB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nor (New) Ghazanchi<\/a>\u00a0nearby.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus-on-karabakh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deadly Halo Trust Incident: Context and Background<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2018\/03\/29\/deadly-halo-trust-incident-context-and-background\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deadly Halo Trust Incident: Context and Background - 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