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The government of Azerbaijan and its armed forces continue to refuse to release Armenian prisoners of war and civilians in their custody in direct violation of a tripartite peace agreement signed on November 10, 2020 between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia, explicitly stipulating their release.
Myriad news reports have confirmed the extra-judicial torture and, subsequent, murder of 19 of more than 250 illegally held Armenian prisoners of war and civilian non-combatants by the government of Azerbaijan within its state-run prisons and rendition sites. Twelve of the nineteen murdered prisoners were civilian non-combatants and, of these, four were women.
Azeri authorities continue to torture, abuse, and murder Armenians in their custody with flagrant disregard for all international norms, as well as international and interstate laws and conventions governing the status of wartime captives and prisoners of war.
Our collective and immediate priorities are to secure the release of each and every Armenian illegally held by Azerbaijan, as soon as possible, bring them home to be reunited with their families, secure the return of the remains of those murdered, and seek justice for those tortured--and still being tortured--at the hands of the Azeri state.
Myriad news reports have confirmed the extra-judicial torture and, subsequent, murder of 19 of more than 250 illegally held Armenian prisoners of war and civilian non-combatants by the government of Azerbaijan within its state-run prisons and rendition sites. Twelve of the nineteen murdered prisoners were civilian non-combatants and, of these, four were women.
Azeri authorities continue to torture, abuse, and murder Armenians in their custody with flagrant disregard for all international norms, as well as international and interstate laws and conventions governing the status of wartime captives and prisoners of war.
Our collective and immediate priorities are to secure the release of each and every Armenian illegally held by Azerbaijan, as soon as possible, bring them home to be reunited with their families, secure the return of the remains of those murdered, and seek justice for those tortured--and still being tortured--at the hands of the Azeri state.
Immediate targets of focus and pursuit for this international, multipartite legal campaign include the following basic goals:
First, the return of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian captives illegally held by Azerbaijan. There are currently an estimated 250 or more POWs still in captivity suffering unimaginable humiliation, torture, and horrors on a daily basis.
Second, the return of the bodies and/or remains of Armenians currently in Azeri hands, as well as soldiers listed as Missing in Action (MIA). Current estimates cite that there are more than 2,500 Armenian military personnel, including non-combatants, who the Azeri government refuses to return to their families. These families are inconsolable beyond words and have no recourse for the recovery of the remains of their sons or daughters, their husbands or fathers, except through these legal channels.
Third, attaining justice for all those Armenian soldiers and civilians who were, and continue to be, tortured at the hands of the Azeri government and armed forces during their captivity, as well as for those beheaded, mutilated, skinned alive, and tortured during the genocidal aggression against Artsakh and Armenia in 2020. These war crimes and beastial horrors were often intentionally caught on camera by their very same Azeri, Turkish, and terrorist mercenary perpetrators and, then, posted across social media for the world to witness in shock and horror.
