In Azerbaijan, testimony is being extracted from Armenian prisoners against Russian peacekeepers. The corresponding “testimonies” have been published at the court hearing on the fabricated case against the captured Armenians.
At the same time, the Azerbaijani authorities are ignoring their direct obligations and are holding prisoners of war and civilians. Let us recall that this is being done to have additional leverage of pressure on the Armenian side, whether demanding minefield maps, demanding the withdrawal of troops, or demanding something else. Now the Azerbaijani authorities have decided to use the captured Armenians for anti-Russian propaganda.
“On 29 June, the hearing of the case of 14 Armenian servicemen captured in December of last year continued at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.
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In particular, the defendant Kevork Aserdyan said that on 27 November 2020, their groups were brought by public buses from the Gyumri military unit to Lachin. There, Lieutenant Colonel Arsen Ghazaryan spoke with the Russian peacekeepers, and they allowed the bus to pass without inspection, the defendant said.
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Another member of the group, Volodya Hagopyan, also said that he had arrived from Gyumri to Lachin, where the Russian peacekeepers let them in. He repeated his predecessor’s testimony that he had been at the positions for several days, then received the order to come down and was taken prisoner. “We were 60 people, and we surrendered, laying down our arms,” he said.
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Another defendant, Mkrtich Minasyan, said that the Russian peacekeepers had let them into Lachin, and the Armenian officer ordered them to take positions in the mountains. Similar testimony was given by another defendant, Yuri Garabedyan, and the others,” Turan reported.
