Advisor to the Prosecutor General of Armenia Gor Abrahamyan has posted the following on his Facebook page:

“A criminal case has been launched in regard to the brutal murders of two residents of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) during the aggressive war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh.

Today a video was disseminated on social networks, showing how servicemen of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, clearly with the motives of national hatred, fire at an unarmed and helpless old man and one young person and continue to shoot at them on the ground.

In relation to the case of murder, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Artsakh has launched a criminal case under the elements of point 1 of part 1 of Article 416 of the Criminal Code of Artsakh.

According to the factual data obtained as a result of the measures taken, the murders of the two civilians who actually have the status of captives and were deprived of protection means — resident of Hadrut B. H. (born in 1947) and resident of Tayk village of Hadrut region Y. A. (born in 1995) were committed in gross violation of international humanitarian law and by servicemen of the sabotage group of Azerbaijan during infiltration into the city of Hadrut (at Artur Mkrtchyan Street).”