Human rights defenders released on killing of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenia’s Armed Forces

  06 July 2017    Read: 1986
Human rights defenders released on killing of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenia’s Armed Forces
On 4 July 2017, Armenia’s Armed Forces purposefully and deliberately shelled with mortars and grenade launchers Alkhanli village in Fizuli District of the Republic of Azerbaijan with large civilian population. As a result, Zahra Guliyeva, 17 months old baby, and her 51 years old grandmother Sahiba Allahverdiyeva were killed. Another civilian, Salminaz Guliyeva, was heavily wounded.
"We, the Azerbaijani human rights defenders state that this atrocity is an integral part of Armenia’s military occupation and ethnic cleansing policy which it has been conducting against Azerbaijan for the last 25 years. The Republic of Armenia and its leadership is fully responsible for these international crimes", AzVision.az reports.

The Statement reads:

"Since 1988 Armenia has occupied 20 per cents of Azerbaijan’s territory – Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 adjacent districts. This occupation led to fleeing of more than 1 million people from their home lands. As a result of Armenia’s military occupation 20.000 Azerbaijanis have been killed, more than 100.000 have been wounded, more than 50.000 became disabled and more than 5.000 have been captured or gone missing. Although a ceasefire agreement was reached between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1994, hundreds of Azerbaijani soldiers and civilians have been killed since then as the result of attacks and provocations by the Armenia’s Armed Forces.

The fact that Armenia till today has not been brought to international responsibility for its actions violating the international law creates conditions for continuation of its crimes.

For this reason we call the international community, in particular the United Nations and other international organisations to give a legal and political assessment of gross violations of the international humanitarian law by Armenia’s Armed Forces, to apply relevant sanctions against Armenia, to take necessary measures to put an end to Armenian occupation and not to stay indifferent to purposeful killing of civilians, in particular elderly and children."

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