{"id":1789,"date":"2020-12-10T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=137112"},"modified":"2020-12-10T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:24:22","slug":"probe-sought-into-nagorno-karabakh-decapitations-other-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/10\/probe-sought-into-nagorno-karabakh-decapitations-other-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe Sought Into Nagorno-Karabakh ‘Decapitations,’ Other ‘War Crimes’"},"content":{"rendered":"
International human rights groups are urging both Azerbaijan and Armenia to urgently conduct investigations into war crimes allegedly committed by both sides during weeks of recent fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International has analyzed 22 videos depicting “extrajudicial executions, the mistreatment of prisoners of war and other captives, and desecration of the dead bodies of enemy soldiers,” the London-based human rights watchdog said in a statement<\/a><\/strong> on December 10.<\/p>\n Two of the clips show “extrajudicial executions by decapitation” by members of Azerbaijan’s military while another video shows the cutting of an Azerbaijani border guard’s throat that led to his death, it said.<\/p>\n “The depravity and lack of humanity captured in these videos shows the deliberate intention to cause ultimate harm and humiliation to victims, in clear violation of international humanitarian law,” according to Denis Krivosheyev, the rights group’s research director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.<\/p>\n “Both Azerbaijani and Armenian authorities must immediately conduct independent, impartial investigations and identify all those responsible,” Krivosheyev said.<\/p>\n Louis Charbonneau, the United Nations director at New-York based Human Rights Watch, said the abuses described by Amnesty were “war crimes” that should be investigated.<\/p>\n