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By Ayya Lmahamad

As a result of Armenia's shelling of civilian infrastructure, 3,064 houses and 100 multi-apartment residential buildings, as well as 504 civilian facilities have been severely damaged in Azerbaijan since September 27, the Prosecutor General’s Office has reported.

As of November 6, ninety-two civilians have been killed and 404 others have been injured since the outbreak of large-scale hostilities on September 27. Among the civilians are eleven children.

Vehicles belonging to civilians have become unserviceable, and numerous small and large horned animals and haystacks were destroyed as well.

On October 27, Armenia launched a missile attack at Barda region, as a result of which 5 civilians, including a child, were killed and 13 civilians, including women and children, seriously wounded. In addition, on October 28, Armenia launched another missile attack at Barda region, as a result of which 21 civilians were killed and about 70 wounded. Lately, on November 5, a citizen who was in intensive care unit, as a result of rocket-artillery shelling of Armenian armed forces on Barda city on October 28, died, bringing the overall civilian death toll to 92.

The missile attack on civilian population came after US-mediated cease-fire agreement that was announced on October 25. Thus, Armenia grossly violated the humanitarian ceasefire already for third time.

Moreover, as of October 23, as a consequence of rocket and heavy artillery attacks on October 4,11 and 17, a total of 25 civilians were killed and 139 were injured in Ganja city. The city's civil infrastructure facilities and vehicles were inflicted extensive damage.

Furthermore, 8 civilians were killed and 10 were injured in Goranboy region. On September 27, as a result of shrapnel hitting the yard of a private house in Naftalan region, all members of one family (5 civilians) were killed.

Likewise, 16 civilians were killed and 50 were injured in Tartar region, 6 civilians were killed and 25 were injured in Barda region, 2 civilians were killed and 2 were injured in Beylagan region, one civilian was killed and 19 were injured in Aghjabadi region, 3 civilians were killed and 17 were injured in Fuzuli region, 7 civilians were killed and 40 were injured in Aghdam region and 5 civilians were injured in Mingachevir region. In addition, in Dasheksan, Jabrayil, Khojali and Gabala regions one civilian was injured in each.

Armenian armed forces launched a large-scale operation in the front-line zone on September 27 at 6 am, shelling the positions of the Azerbaijani army from large-calibre weapons, mortars, and artillery installations of various calibres. Armenia has been targeting Azerbaijan’s densely populated areas and infrastructure projects.

Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in a conflict over Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh breakaway region, which along with seven adjacent regions was occupied by Armenian forces in a war in the early 1990s. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and around one million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

The OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by the United States, Russia and France has been mediating the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict since the signing of the volatile cease-fire agreement in 1994. The Minsk Group’s efforts have resulted in no progress and to this date, Armenia has failed to abide by the UN Security Council resolutions (822, 853, 874 and 884) that demand the withdrawal of Armenian military forces from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

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Ayya Lmahamad is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @AyyaLmahamad

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