Human Rights Watch condemns illegal prosecution of Armenian POWs in Azerbaijan

Emil Lazarian 2021
Panorama, Armenia
July 29 2021

Giorgi Gogia, Associate Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at the Human Rights Watch, referred to the wrongful conviction of 13 Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) from Shirak by a Baku court on Thursday.

“Azerbaijan’s prosecution of Armenian prisoners of war on illegal border crossing charges is a breach of Geneva Convention III,” he .

Captured combatants should have been afforded POW status and returned after hostilities ended, he added.

https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2021/07/29/Human-Rights-Watch-POWs/2543048

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS