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Artsakh Ombudsman: Over 200 prisoners of war are held in Azerbaijan under unknown conditions

panorama.am05/17th/2021, 3:12

Artsakh Ombudsman: Over 200 prisoners of war are held in Azerbaijan under unknown conditions

Artsakh Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan sent a letter to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović over the humanitarian challenges Artsakh and its people face following the Azerbaijani-Turkish aggression.

"During the fall war of 2020, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces committed gross violations of a number of norms of the international humanitarian law which has led to the existing humanitarian catastrophe in Artsakh. Children, elderly, civilian population, journalists, Armenian cultural property were under the deliberate and indiscriminate target of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, they killed the Armenian servicemen and civilians, mutilated and tortured their bodies. Today, over 200 prisoners of war are held in Azerbaijan under unknown conditions despite all kinds of calls of a number of international human rights bodies, about 40.000 people are internally displaced, a number of Armenian cultural monuments are still being vandalized and destroyed as a result of the war. From the first day of the war the Ombudsman initiated a fact-finding mission aimed at monitoring and recording the violations and war crimes committed by Azerbaijan during and after the wa...

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