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Sahiba Gafarova announces Armenia's war crimes at the CIS PA plenary meeting

28 October 2022 21:30 (UTC +04:00)

The speaker of the parliament of Armenia Alen Simonyan elected to voice certain claims aimed at Azerbaijan that were rather departed from truth at the 54th sitting in plenary of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of the Independent States took place in Samarkand on 28 October, the Press and Public Relations Department of Milli Majlis told APA.

According to Sahiba Gafarova, it had been alleged that Azerbaijan had occupied Armenia’s territory: "This is utterly unfoundedly and falsely. It is astonishing that such an assertion should come from a representative of the state that had held 20 percent of our territory under occupation for thirty years: "Azerbaijan never had the slightest intention to occupy territories of Armenia. Not a single town and not a single village has been captured. Armenia committed yet another military provocation levelled at Azerbaijan on 13 September while the Azerbaijani Army took retaliatory action to preserve the territorial integrity of our country to and to save the lives of military personnel and civilians."

The Chair of the Milli Majlis also responded to the Armenian parliamentary speaker’s question about war crimes:

"I state with full responsibility that the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan have never committed war crimes,’ Sahiba Gafarova was saying, ‘This charge is a paragon of duplicity of the state that had pursued a policy of aggression for decades, the state that has committed numerous war crimes against military servicemen and civilians and has trampled underfoot the basic rights of almost a million people. Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan takes her international obligations in earnest. The relations about the crimes committed at the time of the hostilities are being investigated by the appropriate state departments. The General Prosecution Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan released statements on 17 September and 2 October 2022 about the current comprehensive investigation in connexion with the videos spread via social networks anonymously as alleged proof of unlawful deeds of the Army of Azerbaijan.

‘And now, I’d like to ask whether the General Prosecution Authority is working on the videos about the acts of the Armenian side that are spreading on the Internet. Mr Simonyan failed to mention them, somehow, even though those shots saw us the slander or, rather, the obscenity afflicted on the bodies of the fallen Azerbaijani soldiers.
‘I am not going to talk about what the Armenians had done here because one simply cannot talk about that dispassionately. A normal, cultural human being simply could not wrap their head about that. So, I’d like to repeat my question: is the General Prosecution Authority of Armenia investigating those videos?"

Sahib Gafarova addressed one more question: "What steps Armenia just might be taking to prosecute those guilty of the numerous war crimes committed against Azerbaijan’s soldiers and civilian population during both Garabagh Wars and of the ruthless missile assaults upon Ganja, Barda, Terter and other towns, that is, other densely populated civilian communities during the 44 days of the last war. It is a rhetorical question, naturally, because not a single step has been taken to that end despite the multiple official video recordings spread all over social networks."

Chair of Milli Majlis said that almost 3,900 Azerbaijanis have been reported missing since Garabagh War I: "Where are those people, what has become of them? Mass graves were found in two de-occupied villages earlier this year…"