(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Vugar Khalilov
Toivo Klaar, EU special representative for the South Caucasus
and the crisis in Georgia, has urged the punishment of perpetrators
of war crimes against Azerbaijanis, Azernews reports.
“Today I have been sent several videos apparently showing war
crimes committed against Azerbaijanis. Also, these need to be
investigated, and if authentic, perpetrators need to be held
responsible. The conflict has left deep wounds on both sides and to
heal accountability is needed,” Klaar on his twitter account.
Previously, Klaar made a similar comment about suspected war
crimes against Armenian military personnel featured in a social
media video.
“Another horrible video has emerged of Armenian prisoners of war
apparently being executed. If this video is proven to be authentic
then this is a war crime that needs to be investigated and the
perpetrators punished,” he .
Baku described Yerevan's allegations of suspected Azerbaijani
armed forces war crimes against Armenian personnel“as an example
of the hypocrisy of a country that has pursued an aggressive policy
for decades, trampled on the fundamental rights of nearly a million
people, and committed numerous war crimes against military
personnel, as well as civilians”.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry underlined that the Azerbaijani
Military Prosecutor's Office initiated a comprehensive
investigation on September 17 to ascertain if the films, shared on
social media, as well as the time and place of recording, and the
identities of the military troops seen in them, are genuine or
not.
The ministry emphasized that since the first Karabakh war
(1988-1994), the Armenian armed forces have committed unprecedented
massacres not only against Azerbaijani servicemen but also against
civilians. In just one night on February 26, 1992, 613 civilians
were brutally killed in the town of Khojaly, and no information on
the fate of 4,000 Azerbaijanis has been provided yet.
In October 2020, Armenia launched missile attacks against
civilians in Azerbaijan's Ganja, Barda, and Mingachevir cities
committing crimes against humanity.
The Armenian-planted landmines are posing threat to the lives of
people in the region, killing up to 250 persons, most of whom were
civilians, since the end of the 44-day war in 2020, the ministry
said.
“We strongly condemn Armenia's attempts to mislead the
international community and hide its responsibility by spreading
unfounded claims. We demand that Armenia fulfills its international
obligations and that those responsible for numerous war crimes be
held accountable before the law,” the ministry stressed.
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