Azernews.Az

By Sara Rajabova

The Armenian armed forces continue to target the innocent Azerbaijani citizens, who live in the areas close to the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line. They frequently wound the villagers in their homes or on their farms.

Lately, a resident of the Gapanli village of Azerbaijan's Tartar region was wounded as a result of the ceasefire breaches by the Armenian troops, local media reported.

Algayit Guliyev was shot in the leg while he was engaged in household on October 4. Guliyev was trying to return his excavator, which went under fire several days ago while cleaning the canal.

Several months ago, the Armenian forces killed a resident of the Tartar region while he was fishing, and also injured three children while they were playing in their homes' yard.

Due to the frequent ceasefire violations by Armenian armed forces, the Azerbaijani villagers went through great difficulties, as constant shelling of their homes hampered their daily lives.

The residents of these villages earn their life by farming. However, the ceasefire violations make it impossible to work on their lands, take their cattle for grazing, as well as use the water of the rivers originating from Armenia. The Armenians also pollute the water resources by poising them with toxic waste of the plants.

The bloody war, which flared up in the late 1980s due to Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor left displaced 700,000 civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh without homes.

They are temporarily settled in more than 1,600 settlements across 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan.

Moreover, 250,000 Azerbaijanis were expelled from Armenia and became refugees due to Armenia's ethnic cleansing policy after the emergence of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijanis who had displaced from their homes as a result of the brutal war were forced to live in refugee camps, tents and wagons in very difficult conditions.