Artsakh prosecutors open criminal investigation into attempted murder of civilian and servicemen by Azerbaijanis
YEREVAN, May 21. /ARKA/. Prosecutors in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) have opened a criminal investigation into an attempted murder of a local ethnic Armenian civilian and servicemen by Azerbaijani soldiers, Gor Abrahamyan, an adviser to the Armenian Prosecutor General, said in a Facebook post today.
According to him, the incident occurred near the village of Shosh in Artsakh. He said Azerbaijani servicemen opened fire in the direction of the civilian who was carrying out engineering work and the servicemen of the nearby Artsakh military unit.
“The incident took place on May 17, at about 17:05, when a group of servicemen of the Azerbaijani armed forces, motivated by national hatred, and in order to kill two or more people and deliberately destroy other people's property, opened fire in the direction of a resident of the village of Shosh, Martuni region who carried out engineering work on a multifunctional excavator in the territories controlled by the Artsakh military unit as well as in the direction of the unit's personnel that lasted about 7 minutes,” Abrahamyan said.
He said as a result, the windshield and glass of the left side door of the excavator were completely damaged, causing significant material damage.
'In fact, the murder was not committed only because the civilian and the Artsakh servicemen managed to hide,' Abrahamyan said.
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
After 44 days of the war, on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor.-0-
