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Two beheaded men in Nagorno-Karabakh war videos identified | FR24 News English

Two beheaded men in Nagorno-Karabakh war videos identified

Two elderly men beheaded by Azerbaijani forces in videos widely shared on messaging apps have been identified, confirming two of the bloodiest atrocities in the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war.

The men of Armenian origin were not combatants, residents of their respective villages said. Both were beheaded by men wearing the uniform of the Azerbaijani armed forces. The short, gruesome videos of the murders are among the worst in a torrent of footage showing abuse, torture and murder that continued to emerge more than a month after a ceasefire went into effect negotiated by Russia.

Evidence from villagers in interviews with the Guardian corroborates the identifications of an Armenian-backed local government human rights ombudsperson and two prominent Armenian human rights lawyers preparing a related criminal case to murders.

The Guardian also confirmed one of the victim’s identities with a relative and reviewed a passport application photo that strongly resembles the other victim.

In videos uploaded on November 22 and December 3, men in uniforms conforming to those of the Azerbaijani army hold down and behead a man with a knife. Then place the severed head on a dead animal. “This is how we will get revenge – cutting off heads,” said a voice off camera.

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  1. According to the publication, the two victims were innocent villagers who refused to leave their homes when Azeri forces arrived. Their identity was confirmed to the Guardian by a human rights ombudsman for the Armenian-backed local government and two Armenian human rights lawyers who are preparing a criminal case over the killings.

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    1. The paper has quoted a spokesman for the Council of Europe’s Commissioner on Human Rights as saying that "at this stage we can only say that the commissioner has received videos and other material alleging human rights violations." He added that the commissioner "wants to carry out a mission in order to assess the situation" on her own. "She is planning a mission to the region soon,” he said, as quoted by the Guardian.

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    2. Δυο ηλικιωμένοι άνδρες που αποκεφαλίστηκαν από στελέχη των δυνάμεων του Αζερμπαϊτζάν σε φρικιαστικά βίντεο που κυκλοφόρησαν ευρέως σε app ανταλλαγής μηνυμάτων ταυτοποιήθηκαν, σύμφωνα με την Guardian. Όπως επισημαίνει η εφημερίδα, πρόκειται για αμάχους Αρμενίους που κατοικούσαν σε διαφορετικά χωριά του Ναγκόρνο-Καραμπάχ, και η αναγνώρισή τους αποτελεί μία ακόμη αποδειξη για τις φρικαλεότητες που διαπράχθηκαν στην περιοχή κατά τον πρόσφατο πόλεμο.

      Σύμφωνα με το δημοσίευμα, και οι δύο άνδρες αποκεφαλίστηκαν από άνδρες με στολές των ενόπλων δυνάμεων του Αζερμπαϊτζάν. Τα σύντομα, ανατριχιαστικά βίντεο των εκτελέσεων είναι από τα πιο ειδεχθή που έχουν κυκλοφορήσει μέχρι στιγμής, ωστόσο υπάρχουν και άλλα ντοκουμέντα που καταγράφουν κακοποίηση, βασανιστήρια και δολοφονίες που συνέχισαν να εμφανίζονται πάνω από έναν μήνα μετά την εφαρμογή της εκεχειρίας.

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    3. Οι μαρτυρίες χωρικών που κατέγραψε η Guardian επιβεβαιώνουν τα στοιχεία της ταυτοποίησης που έφερε εις πέρας ένας διαμεσολαβητής με εντολή της τοπικής διοίκησης που υποστηρίζεται από την Αρμενία. Δύο διακεκριμένοι Αρμένιοι δικηγόροι ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων συγκεντρώνουν στοιχεία ώστε οι υπεύθυνοι αυτών των δυο δολοφονιών να οδηγηθούν σε δίκη. Η βρετανική εφημερίδα επαλήθευσε την ταυτότητα του ενός θύματος με τη βοήθεια ενός συγγενή, ενώ είχε πρόσβαση σε φωτογραφία διαβατηρίου που φέρει μεγάλες ομοιότητες με το δεύτερο θύμα.

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    4. Two residents of Madatashen village in Nagorno-Karabakh identified the victim as Genadi Petrosyan, 69, who had moved to the village in the late 1980s from Sumgait town in Azerbaijan.

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    5. Amnesty International called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to investigate the videos of beheadings and desecration of bodies. The organization used digital verification techniques to authenticate the images discussed in this article, as well as images of the murder of an Azerbaijani border guard who had his throat slit. Other videos show soldiers desecrating the bodies of enemy combatants.

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