FIDH Denounces Humanitarian Law Violations during April Clashes

July 18, 2016
(Photo: Sputnik/Karo Saakian)

Nagorno-Karabakh ruins (Photo: Sputnik/Karo Saakian)

PARIS (ArmRadio)”” The Worldwide Movement for Human Rights (FIDH) has studied comprehensively both Armenian and Azerbaijan sources and, based on the figures and facts confirmed by both sides, has published a situation note on Monday denouncing the violations of international humanitarian and human rights law during the April clashes along the Nagorno-Karabakh border.

“Whereas some of the human losses reported might have occurred as a result of failure to take precautionary measures and assess the effects of the attack towards the civilian population, at least three elderly civilians, residents of Talish village in Nagorno-Karabakh were reportedly killed deliberately and their bodies mutilated when the Azerbaijani troops entered and took control over the village16. Ears of the above-mentioned three civilians were cut off,”

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