(MENAFN- AzerNews) VOMA, one of the most famous Armenian terrorist organizations in
the world, continues its activities to involve Armenian children
into its ranks.
The terrorist organization, made up of Armenians, has called on
Armenian children and youth through its social media accounts to
join their camps for mine-laying training, Azernews reports with reference to Trend.
This terrorist group is also known for involving underage
teenagers in its "events", instilling the ideas of "Miatsum",
hatred towards Azerbaijan and making them to memorize Nazi Garegin
Nzhdeh's statements about the racial supremacy of Armenians.
Although the 1949 Geneva Convention, to which Armenia acceded,
and its 1977 additional protocols prohibit the participation of
children under the age of fifteen in military exercises, VOMA
ignores this prohibition.
By engaging in hostilities children under the age of 15, Armenia
grossly infringes upon not only the relevant paragraphs of the
Geneva Convention, but also Article 38 of the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child (UNCRC), adopted at the 44th session of the UN
General Assembly on November 20, 1989. The convention calls
participating States to strict observance of the norms of
international humanitarian law relating to children in armed
conflicts, in particular, prohibits persons under the age of 15
from direct participation in military operations and calls for all
measures to be taken to do so.
During the second 2020 Karabakh war, facts of children's direct
involvement in military operations by Armenia, as well as in
military drills by VOMa, POGA and Tigran Mets paramilitary
organizations, have been revealed.
The mentioned terrorist organizations still adhere to such
tactics in the Karabakh region, which is the sovereign territory of
Azerbaijan, however, the international community and organizations
haven't shown any serious reaction to the illegal military
activities carried out by VOMA, POGA and other Armenian terrorist
groups in Karabakh.
Baku repeatedly called on the UN and its specialized agencies
(UNICEF), as well as other international organizations including
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, which have global
authority in the field of human rights, as well as the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to react the
developments and intervene in the activities carried out by the
separatists, but these structures dismissively approached this
issue.
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