(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Vugar Khalilov
The Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor's Office has filed a
criminal case into the discovery of a mass grave in Khojavand
District, Karabakh, Azernews reports, citing the Azerbaijan
Prosecutor-General's Office.
The Military Prosecutor's Office has initiated a criminal case
in connection with the discovery of a mass burial site of
presumably Azerbaijan army servicemen in Khojavand's Edilli village
under Articles 115.4, 120.2.1, 120.2.7, and 120.2.12 of the
Azerbaijani Criminal Code, the report reads.
It was established that during the first Karabakh war
(1988-1994), military units of the Armenian separatist regime,
which illegally operated in Azerbaijan, along with the Armenian
armed forces grossly violated the norms and principles of
international humanitarian law, including the requirements of
Article 17 of Geneva 'Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the
Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field” (12
August 1949).
In 1993, some 25 prisoners of war, presumably servicemen of the
Azerbaijani army, were killed and buried massively on the basis of
national hatred by Armenians in Khojavand's Edilli village, the
prosecutor's office added.
Following an inspection of the territory of Edilli village, the
remains of seven individuals were discovered and taken from a mass
grave on February 23-26, and the remains of 18 more people were
located and removed on September 14-30.
Samples were gathered from the bone remains and submitted to
forensic molecular-genetic study after assigning the required
experts in the case.
Shamsi Shikhaliyev of Fuzuli District resident, who witnessed
the event and was in captivity in Armenia from 28.08.1993 to
14.12.1994, was identified as a victim.
The relevant investigation measures on the criminal case are
currently underway, the Military Prosecutor's Office concluded.
On October 4, another mass grave of Azerbaijani military
personnel, killed by the Armenian armed forces in the first
Karabakh war (1988-1994), was found in Khojavand District's Edilli
village.
In the same vein, the Military Prosecutor's Office has initiated
a criminal investigation into the discovery of landmines in
Dashkasan District, the Prosecutor-General's Office said in a
separate report.
On October 1-2, in Dashkasan's Bugdadag area, some 452 E-001 М
anti-personnel landmines of Armenian production, which were buried
by Armenian sabotage groups, were discovered and defused by the
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's engineer-sapper units.
It is assumed that the landmines were buried following the
44-day war with Armenia in 2020, the report added.
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