In April 2003 22-year-old Artur Akhmatkhanov was grabbed by masked soldiers and bundled into an armoured personnel carrier. He has not been seen since.

Azeri demonstrators called on the European Union on Tuesday to condemn Armenian war crimes in the disputed area of Nagorno Karabakh, 16 years after one of the most notorious massacres in the conflict.

Some time has now passed since the tragic deportation of the Ingush people on February 23 1944, but the injury and the sense of the injustice still live on in people’s memories. This collective memory has survived and goes on surviving, despite the inhuman and anti-patriotic attempts to erase it …