Ruben Melikyan: The international community must condemn the atrocities of the Azerbaijani side in the days of the April war
ArmInfo.The international community should condemn the atrocities of the Azerbaijani side in the days of the April war, as impunity encourages Azerbaijan to commit new crimes. The Artsakh Ombudsman Ruben Melikyan, presenting a report on war crimes and atrocities of Azerbaijan during the April escalation at Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, stated this.
"Residents of Artsakh are concerned about their security, as the Azerbaijani side constantly threatens them with the resumption of hostilities and violates the ceasefire regime on a daily basis," said the main Human Hights Defender of Artsakh.
Melikyan in his report pointed to systematic war crimes committed by Azerbaijani servicemen during the April events, including cases of decapitation of people. The report emphasizes that the Azerbaijani military tortured, killed Armenian soldiers and abused their bodies.
To recall, in the course of the Azerbaijani aggression on April 1-4, many cases of violation of the rights of civilians were recorded. In addition, Azerbaijani servicemen brutally killed and cut off the ears of three civilians of Talish Valery Khalapyan, Razmell Khalapyan and Marus Khalapyan. Also in the social networks there were photos of Azerbaijani soldiers with the cut off head of the Armenian soldier of 19- year-old Karam Sloyan. In addition, the bodies of all 18 dead servicemen of the Defense Army, transferred to Azerbaijan by Nagorno-Karabakh, were mutilated. In addition, on the first day of the aggression, 12- year-old Vaghinak Grigoryan was killed, two children were injured.