Armenia–Azerbaijan Conflict
Armenia–Azerbaijan missing persons commissions hold meeting
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First Nagorno-Karabakh War
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Azerbaijani court sentences Armenian man to 15 years for war crimes
The Baku Military Court has sentenced Vagif Khachatryan, an ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh, to 15 years in prison for war crimes committed during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Khachatryan was accused of taking part in a massacre of Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Meshali, near Khojali, charges he denied. A 1992 report by the Russian human rights group, Memorial, cited ‘severe violence against the civilian population’ in Meshali by ethnic Armenian forces on 22 December 1991.
Armenia
Trial of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian for war crimes continues in Baku
A Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian detained in July is on trial in Azerbaijan on charges of committing war crimes during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Vagif Khachatryan, 68, was arrested in July as he was being evacuated to Armenia by the Red Cross for heart surgery. He is accused of taking part in a massacre of Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Meshali, in Khojali district, on 22 December 1991. [Read more: Azerbaijan arrests Nagorno-Karabakh resident for ‘war crimes’] A 1992 report by
Armenia
Azerbaijan offers amnesty to Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers, except for crimes during first war
Azerbaijan will offer an amnesty to members of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh who lay down their arms, according to Azerbaijani presidential advisor Hikmat Hajiyev. However, Hajiyev said the amnesty would not include those who committed crimes during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. In a statement on Friday, Hajiyev said that those who ‘voluntarily laid down their arms are free, as we have openly declared’. On Thursday, the authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh said they needed a security gua
Armenia
Azerbaijan arrests Nagorno-Karabakh resident for ‘war crimes’
Azerbaijani border guards have arrested a 68-year-old resident of Nagorno-Karabakh as he was being evacuated to Armenia by the Red Cross for heart surgery, accusing him of genocide. Vagif Khachatryan, a resident of the village of Patara, was among 16 patients being evacuated by the Red Cross to Armenian hospitals for urgent treatment when he was arrested at the Lachin checkpoint on Saturday. The authorities in Stepanakert accused Baku of ‘kidnapping’ Khachatryan and taking him in an ‘unknow
Azerbaijan
First Azerbaijani IDPs return after 29 years in exile
A group of 41 families from the village of Aghali, in the Zangilan District, have become the first Azerbaijanis displaced during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War to return to their hometowns. On 19 July, the first wave of returnees departed to the village from the Zangilan District Executive Authority, currently located in Baku. They are the first of hundreds of thousands of displaced Azerbaijanis who have been promised homes in the areas that Azerbaijan took control of following the Second Na
Armenia
Stepanakert’s memory hotel
A small hotel in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh unites several families who fled their homes during the recent war and provides a space to rekindle their hopes of finding a place to call home again. One of the two entrances of the Ed-Em hotel located near the central square of the capital is quiet, silent almost — the only sound, a ‘tap – tap – tap’ comes from the receptionist typing distractedly on his phone. But this is no ordinary hotel, and those who stay there, are no ordinary guests
