Armenians grossly violates international conventions, documents in relation to Azerbaijani hostages
By Rashid Shirinov
The Armenian side grossly violated international conventions and documents in relation to the civilian population taken hostage during the occupation of Azerbaijani territories.
This is stated in the final presentation of the project entitled “Study of the violated rights of the civilian population (women and children) taken hostage during the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.” The project was presented by the Public Association for Assistance to Prisoner and Hostages “Hesret Yolu” with the assistance of the Council of State Support to NGOs under the President of Azerbaijan.
Within the project, a survey was conducted among 100 women and people who were children at the time of hostage-taking, who currently live in Baku, Absheron, villages and settlements of the Aghdam region and in the Ashagi Agjakand village of the Goranboy region.
Referring to the results obtained from the processed information resources and other data, it was established that the Armenian side violated international conventions and documents in relation to the civilian population taken hostage during the occupation of Azerbaijani territories.
Thus, the Armenians grossly violated the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th and 17th articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, the requirements of the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict adopted in 1974, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted in 1948, and the Conventions for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field and relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.
Until now, Armenia controls fifth part of Azerbaijan’s territory and rejects implementing four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.
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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov
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