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Armenian armed forces’ deliberate shooting of a wedding ceremony attended by a lot of civilians from their positions in the occupied Azerbaijani territories and as a result three persons, one of them a child, being injured in the incident is another fact of Armenia’s violation of international humanitarian law, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hikmet Hajiyev told APA on Sep.2 in his comments on the Armenian shooting of a wedding ceremony in Terter’s Qapanl village on September 1.
Hikmet Hajiyev said international humanitarian law strictly forbids any direct and deliberate assault on civilians.
Civilian population can no way be a target of armed attacks. This deliberate act of Armenian armed forces is a war crime according to international criminal law, Hajiyev noted.
“This act indicates that Armenia is too far from fulfilling its commitments to international humanitarian law and from humane ethics. Having committed the Khojaly genocide, a crime against humanity, Armenia’s civilian and military leadership is already used to killing civilians in masses. On 8 March 2011, a sniper of the Armenian Armed Forces shot to death 9-year-old Fariz Badalov. The international community is supposed to reprobate this criminal act of Armenia, on top of the latest incidents,” Hajiyev stressed.
Armenian’s deliberate violation of the ceasefire, causing escalation on the frontline, provocative acts along the contact line of troops and borders with Azerbaijan, shooting of civilians, as well as the fact that an event has recently been organized with the participation of the Armenian political leadership in Azerbaijan’s occupied Khankendi district on the occasion of the “independence” of the so-called criminal regime created in the occupied Azerbaijani territories and Armenia’s provocative policy to hold fictitious “elections” to the “self-governing bodies” of the puppet separatist regime in the occupied Azerbaijani territories on 13 September 2015 prove once again that Armenia aims to continue the occupation of Azerbaijani territories and remain the status quo in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict unchanged, Hajiyev said.
Armenia’s policy of aggression and occupation is the main obstacle to the process of resolving the conflict and establishment of peace and stability in the region, and Armenia, as the Azerbaijani side stated several times, bears full responsibility for the current situation, the spokesperson noted.
This war crime Armenia has recently committed against Azerbaijani civilians will be raised up by the country’s diplomatic missions before international organizations, Hajiyev completed.
Apa.az
