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Two elderly people beheaded by Azerbaijani security forces have been identified in horrific videos that were widely circulated on a messaging app, according to the guardian. According to the newspaper, they are Armenian civilians living in different villages in Nagorno-Karabakh, and its recognition is further proof of the atrocities committed in the region during the recent war.
According to the report, both men were beheaded by men in uniforms of their armed forces. Azerbaijan. The short, lurid videos of the executions are the most egregious ever released, but there are other documents that record abuse, torture and murders which continued to appear more than a month after the implementation of the ceasefire.
The testimonies of the villagers registered by The Guardian confirm the identification data carried out by an ombudsman on the orders of the local authorities supported by Armenia. Two prominent Armenian human rights lawyers gather evidence so that the perpetrators of these two murders can be brought to justice. The British newspaper verified the identity of a victim with the help of a relative, while the latter had access to a passport photo that bears a strong resemblance to the second victim.
In videos posted on November 22 and December 3, men in uniforms that resemble those of Azeri soldiers appear to be holding a man stabbed and beheaded with a knife. Then one of the perpetrators put the severed head on a dead animal. “This is how we get our head off,” a voice is heard saying on camera.
Two residents of the town of Madatasen, in Nagorno-Karabakh, identified the victim as 69 years old Gennady Petrosian, who had moved to the village in the late 1980s from Sumgayit, Azerbaijan.
H Gayan petrosyan (Despite the same last name, there is no relationship), the director of the local school, lived right in front of the poor house of the victim. He said he had helped install the village’s power grid and showed him photos of a son who had moved to Russia with his ex-wife. Regarding one of the videos, he told the newspaper: “I could see his face clearly and I recognized him.” The Guardian had access to a photo of Petrosian that closely resembles the victim.
Gennady Petrosyan, who lived alone, refused to leave the village when the Azerbaijani forces approached. When a neighbor tried to drive him away, got off and walked home.
Artak Beglarian, the ombudsman who works for the local government, confirmed the identity of the 69-year-old through testimonies from people who knew him.
The second elder to be identified
A video posted on the Telegram app on December 7 shows two soldiers in uniforms similar to those of Azerbaijani soldiers immobilizing an elderly man near a tree. Another soldier gives a knife to one of the attackers and begins to cut the victim’s neck. Before the video ends, the decapitation is almost complete.
Three Azok villagers identified the victim in this video as him. Yuri asrian, an 82-year-old man who had refused to leave the village on 20 October as Azerbaijani forces approached.
«He did not communicate much with his fellow townspeople. He just refused to leave»said ο Georgi Avesian, mayor of the town until 2019 and one of the people who recognized Assrian. He said that it was possible that the old man did not fully understand what was happening in the area at the time.
the azerbaijani forces it entered the village a few days later, and Azok remained under Baku’s control, as stipulated in the November 9 ceasefire agreement.
There was no information on Asrian’s fate until the 29-second video appeared last week on social media.
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