Body of soldier killed in Azerbaijan-Armenia warfare recovered after 6 months

A surprising case of grotesque violence inflicted upon a soldier stationed within the Nagorno-Karabakh area throughout the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh warfare got here to mild not too long ago, the place the soldier’s physique was discovered mutilated and head reduce off. According to a report by the journalist Yeranuhi Soghoyan revealed on an Armenian web site, the soldier named Gagik was captured and brought as a prisoner of warfare (POW) from a spot known as Tyak in Hadrut throughout the Azerbaijan-Armenia battle final 12 months. The soldier’s mom Lusine mentioned, “He was captured not by the Azeris, but by Turkish mercenaries”. Azerbaijani Turks are often known as Azeris.
The physique of this soldier was returned to his mom decapitated,with marks of brutal tortureHe was taken as POW in Hadrut in December. There was a video of him being overwhelmed up bc he refused to say ‘Karabakh is Azerbaijan”. He was beheaded, his head wasn’t returned/discovered. pic.twitter.com/OYtKTKJWlP— sam martirosyan (@mrtrsyns) October 1, 2021
In the video that was later obtained by the mom, it confirmed the soldier being kicked within the mouth as he says Karabakh is Armenia.
Further particulars revealed that the mom of the soldier personally recognized his son’s lifeless physique. According to the studies, the soldier was brutally tortured and his pores and skin was flayed with a number of knife marks on the chest. There had been additionally gunshot wounds in his leg with ribs utterly damaged and the pinnacle reduce off. The physique additionally carried burn marks.
The writer Yeranuhi Soghoyan added, “Lusine asked the autopsy doctor if the boy’s internal organs were in place and received a negative answer. For some reason he reasoned that the body was burnt, that’s why it is not there, but the body was not burnt to such an extent that there were no internal organs, the fire did not affect the internal organs only, if that was the case, I would not be given a body, but a handful ‘Ash’, says Lusine.”
It must be talked about that Nagorno-Karabakh is a strife-torn area that lies throughout the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan and is ruled by ethnic Armenians. This disputed territory is internationally acknowledged as part of Azerbaijan, however in de facto management of the Republic of Artsakh for many years. The Republic of Artsakh exists with no recognition from any United Nations member or observer state and has shut ties with Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh warfare in 2020 that lasted for round one and half months began on twenty seventh September and ended on November 10 with a trilateral ceasefire settlement between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia, which compelled Armenia to concede all of the remaining occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh.
On twenty seventh September 2020, clashes erupted on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Line of Control. It was believed that the combating was triggered by an Azerbaijani offensive, with the help of Turkey.
Moreover, Turkey had despatched two Turkish-backed Syrian insurgent teams into the Nagorno-Karabakh battle zone comprising of round 2,500 males in help of Azerbaijan. France had accused Turkey of funnelling Syrian jihadists into the Nagorno-Karabakh battle.
Sunni majority international locations like Turkey and Pakistan seem to have shut ties with a Shia majority Azerbaijan, having acknowledged its independence from the USSR in 1991. Azerbaijan and Turkey have declared their help for Pakistan over its stance on the Kashmir problem brazenly opposing India.