war over the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia ended last month. Rashad Aliyev and Gardashkhan Abisov were charged with mutilating the corpses of Armenian soldiers in the Zangilan region, which borders the enclave, after videos of the acts surfaced on social media. A senior Azerbaijani official, who did not want to be named, told
The National that he condemned the atrocities and hinted that there would be further arrests.
A statement from Baku’s prosecutor-general said a further two soldiers, Arzu Huseynov and Umid Agayev, were arrested for desecrating the graves in an Armenian cemetery in the village of Madatli, Khojavend, a region that has now been retaken by Azerbaijan. The incident was also recorded on video and circulated online.
Cuatro soldados de Azerbaiyán serán enjuiciados por crímenes de guerra – Diario Armenia
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Азербайджан арестовал четырех военных: подозревают в преступлениях на войне в Карабахе
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BAKU – Azerbaijani authorities say they have
arrested four servicemen suspected of desecrating the bodies of dead Armenian soldiers and of vandalizing gravestones at Armenian cemeteries during recent fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The arrests were made after investigators
studied videos that circulated on the Internet during the six weeks of fighting that ended last month, the Prosecutor-General s Office said in a statement on December 14.
According to the statement, two sergeants, Rasad Aliyev and Qardasxan Abisov, are suspected of desecrating the corpses of Armenian soldiers killed during battles in the district of Zangilan.
Two privates, Arzu Huseynov and Umid Agayev, are accused of vandalizing gravestones at a cemetery in the village of Madatli.
Четверых азербайджанских военных арестовали за вандализм и надругательства
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