Armenians File War Crimes Lawsuits Against Azerbaijan
July 26, 2017
A man walks through the ruins of his house in the village of Talish, on April 6, 2016 (AFP Photo by Karen Minasyan)
YEREVAN (RFE/RL)””Hundreds of Armenians have filed government-backed lawsuits in the European Court of Human Rights accusing Azerbaijan of beheading Armenian soldiers and committing other atrocities during last year’s heavy fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ara Ghazaryan, an Armenian legal expert involved in the unprecedented legal action, said on Tuesday that the Strasbourg-based court has already requested official information from Baku on over 20 of the 359 lawsuits filed from Armenia and Karabakh.
“We expect a just compensation,”
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