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The images published on Twitter by the Unified Infocenter of Armenia were filmed during the interrogation of a Syrian mercenary captured in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where he fights on the side of the Azerbaijani troops.
The captured man claims his name is Yousef Al-Abed Al-Hajji and he is from the village of Al-Ziyadiyah, located near the town of Jisr Al-Shughour in Idlib governorate. The man says he was born in 1988, is married and has five children.
The man says that he came to Nagorno-Karabakh to fight the “infidels”. They promised him a salary of $ 2,000 a month and a reward of $ 100 for beheading an unbeliever. You can see the images here.
Earlier, the Armenian Defense Ministry released the recorded testimony of another man who also claimed to be Syrian and was recruited to take part in the fighting on the side of the Azerbaijani forces, zerohedge.com notes.
The government of Azerbaijan has denied the use of mercenaries
The Armenian and Azerbaijani sides accuse each other of using foreign mercenaries in the fighting in the disputed region. Armenians claim that hundreds or even thousands of jihadists in northern Syria have joined Azerbaijan to fight against Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The videos published by the Ministry of Defense of Armenia come to deal a severe blow to the statements made by the government of Azerbaijan. In October, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister vehemently denied that his country was using Syrian mercenaries. “In recent days we have witnessed a smear campaign in foreign media, full of lies and slander, in connection with the alleged importation of fighters from Syria into Azerbaijan. Unlike Armenia, which has faced a severe demographic crisis for years and is therefore unable to recruit, Azerbaijan has a strong armed force, so professional that it does not need external forces, especially irregular groups. , to achieve its objectives, “says eurasianet.org.
