(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Sabina Mammadli
The Azerbaijani Prosecutor-General's Office appealed to
international organizations to urge them to take measures of legal
responsibility provided by international law against Armenia, its
military-political leadership, who committed crimes against peace
and humanity, war crimes, Azernews reports.
In the statement addressed to the world community in relation to
the missile attack on Ganja, the office condemned crimes against
peace and humanity and honored the memory of those who died with
deep sorrow.
“The Armenian Armed Forces, violating the norms and principles
of international Law, Geneva Convention of 1949 and Additional
Protocols, requirements for a humanitarian ceasefire, reached
during the Second Karabakh War, which started on September 27,
2020, amid their own crushing defeats on the battlefield, subjected
the civilian infrastructure in cities and regions of Azerbaijan
located far from the conflict zone and the frontline zone to fire.
This includes residential buildings, hospitals, other medical
centers, school buildings, kindergartens, administrative buildings
of state institutions, agricultural land with the use of various
types of weapons, and ballistic missiles, including prohibited
artillery. Thus, crimes against humanity and peace, war crimes,
including brutal murders of civilians, were committed, large-scale
damage was caused to the civilian population, state property,
infrastructure, business entities,' the statement said.
The statement noted that the first missile attack on Ganja city
located 60 kilometers from the then combat zone, was carried out by
the Armenian Armed Forces on October 4, 2020, one civilian was
killed and 39 were injured. As a result of the second attack on
Ganja, three civilians were wounded the next day. During another
rocket attack on Ganja on October 8, 2020, three civilians were
injured, and infrastructure, houses, and vehicles were seriously
damaged.
Furthermore, the statement added that the Armenian Armed Forces
carried out another missile attack on Ganja city around 2 am on
October 11, 2020, as a result of which 10 people, including women
and children, were killed and 51 people were injured.
“As a result of the launch of a SCUD (Elbrus) ballistic missile
during the night of October 17, 15 people, including five women and
six children, were killed in the city, 79 people, including 29
women and 19 children, were injured, residential buildings were
damaged and other buildings,' the statement stressed.
Additionally, it was brought out that during the missile and
artillery attacks on Ganja city on October 4, 5, 8, 11, 17, some 26
people were killed, including 10 women, and 6 children, 66 women,
and 48 children were wounded, and significant damage was caused to
civilian infrastructure, religious sites, and vehicles.
“The goal of the military-political leadership of Armenia, when
striking at the districts of the city, where the civilian
population is densely populated, at night was to kill as many
people as possible,' the statement adds.
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