Armenia violates human rights - SAVE AZERBAIJANI HOSTAGES

  10 December 2016    Read: 3394
Armenia violates human rights - SAVE AZERBAIJANI HOSTAGES
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day.

One example of human rights violation can be Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan. The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian Armed Forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. The aggression against the Republic of Azerbaijan has severely damaged the socio-economic sphere of the country. Armenia still continues its aggression against Azerbaijan violating human rights.

As part of Armenian aggression, on 11th July 2014, 3 Azerbaijan civilians were taken as hostages by Armenians in Azerbaijani region Kalbajar, which was occupied by Armenia. One of the hostages, Hasan Hasanov was murdered, Shabaz Guliyev and Dilgam Asgarov are still being held hostage by separatist regime.

The only “guilt” of Azerbaijan hostages was to visit the graves of their relatives in Kalbajar, the official part of Azerbaijan territory, where they born and raised up.


In October, the unrecognized separatist regime held “so-called” judicial trial for Azerbaijani hostages and adopted fictional court decisions which don`t have any legal force. According to it, Dilgam Asgarov was sentenced to life-time, Shabaz Guliyev to 22 years hostage imprisonment. Separatist regime once more touched the pride of Azerbaijan nation by reviewing the “appeal complaint” of hostages in the day of Khojaly massacre. As seen, these fake “judicial trials” only had political purposes.



Even though in this year international campaign for the defense of hostages was organized, international organizations and member states of OSCE Minsk group remained indifferent to their fate and limited themselves by giving formal statements.

Even the “guardian” of human rights, European Court of Human Rights didn’t find it necessary to consider the fate of these people and refused to accept the appeal of their relatives in a priority manner. Global community is dishonestly silent, as if this event has never happened.

All these are gross violations of human rights and international legal norms. At the first anniversary of this event, we call all honest people not to be silent and protect the rights of two people who are being unjustly held hostage in their own homeland.

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