Armenian captive’s arrival to Yerevan show of special forces
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry has said the Armenian media has spread surprising and regrettable information with distorting the facts, as well as leading to bewilderment in the Armenian community about the handover of the Armenian captive.
Azerbaijan transferred Armenian serviceman Akop Injigulyan, who illegally crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line, to a third country in late August.
On October 3 that Injigulyan has repeatedly said he consciously and on his own will left his fighting post with his weapon and after surrounding by the Azerbaijani servicemen no pressure was made on him, adding that he will never return back to Armenia and wants to leave in a third country.
Injigulyan was kept in the manner and place according to the requirements of the Geneva Convention and no actions in violation of international and humanitarian laws have been applied to him, the ministry said.
"Injigulyan was surrounded by the care of relevant international organization and all the events that included him were held under control of these organizations," the source added.
The ministry stressed that despite Azerbaijan's call on returning Injigulyan and other five Armenian citizens, who are the members of one family, to Armenia, each time military-political regime in Yerevan demonstrated indifference to the fate of its citizens.
The ministry stressed that its well seen from his pictures published on the Armenian media that he is healthy and such things should be regarded as the next fiction of the Armenians.
The ministry also noted that despite the place of residence of the Armenian captive was to be confidential and secret, the transfer of this information to the Armenian side raises doubts.
The Armenian side, using the services of the Armenian diaspora, which was in close connection with the criminal gangs, and putting pressure on family members and people to Injigulyan, forced him to say that he allegedly voluntarily returned to Yerevan, the defense ministry stressed.
The ministry went on to emphasize that solemn ceremony held to meet Injigulyan in the Armenian airport, his interview filled with hatred towards Azerbaijan and love to Armenia, coverage of these processes in the Armenian media and his will to return to the army and desire to serve his term are the show prepared on the scenario of Armenian special services.