Artsakh Ombudsman states the Azerbaijan threat of genocide
ArmInfo. Within the framework of the mission
on data collection initiated in May 2016, among the human rights
rough violations Artsakh Ombudsman investigated the artillery
cannonade of Talish village on February 24-25, 2017, as well as the
events taken place at the state border of NKR on February 25 night.
According to the Office of Human Rights protector, all these cases
are reviewed and accepted by the Ombudsman as mutually connected.
It is stated particularly, that a data collection was implemented
immediately at the Talish village on march 2, 2017, as well as
appropriate meetings and conversations with local authorities and
population representatives. Interviews were held also in respect to
the events taken place on February 24-25 at the martini sector of
Artsakh state border.
In the result of data collection mission it was recorded that on
February 24 in the morning and in the evening of the next day
Azerbaijan made 15 cannon shots towards Talish village. The
majority of canons exploded at the territory of the village school.
"It is obvious that Azerbaijan implemented artillery against civil
population," the Ombudsman statement reads.
"Until now the international community did not state a proper legal
evaluation of Azerbaijan barbarous actions of April 2016, and did not
respond adequately, in the result of which Azerbaijan thinks any
behavior will be left unpunished. This allows to think that the
events of April 2016 are directly connected to what happened on
February 24-25, 2017 at the Artsakh border," Artsakh Ombudsman
summarized.