{"id":1885,"date":"2020-12-11T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/11\/azerbaijan-unlawful-strikes-in-nagorno-karabakh\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:10:07","slug":"azerbaijan-unlawful-strikes-in-nagorno-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/11\/azerbaijan-unlawful-strikes-in-nagorno-karabakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan: Unlawful Strikes in Nagorno-Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"ZN9TZGQMYnU\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/12\/11\/azerbaijan-unlawful-strikes-nagorno-karabakh\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/12\/11\/azerbaijan-unlawful-strikes-nagorno-karabakh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Berlin, December 11, 2020) \u2013 Azerbaijani forces carried out apparently indiscriminate attacks in Stepanakert in violation of the laws of war during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Human Rights Watch said today. <\/p>\n<p>A Human Rights Watch on-site investigation in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s largest city, found numerous incidents in which Azerbaijan\u2019s forces used inherently indiscriminate cluster munitions and artillery rockets or other weapons that did not distinguish between military targets and civilian objects. Evidence relating to an attack on October 4, 2020, indicates that multiple strikes hit residential homes in less than a minute suggesting possible bombardment \u2013 treating the whole area as a military target \u2013 which is prohibited under the laws of war. Azerbaijani forces also attacked infrastructure that may have an unlawfully disproportionate impact on the civilian population. The use by Armenian and local Nargono-Karabakh forces of military bases and dual-use infrastructure in Stepanakert placed the civilian population unnecessarily at risk.<\/p>\n<p>For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Azerbaijan, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/europe\/central-asia\/azerbaijan\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/europe\/central-asia\/azerbaijan<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For Human Rights Watch\u2019s report on Armenian forces\u2019 strikes in Azerbaijan, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/12\/11\/armenia-unlawful-rocket-missile-strikes-azerbaijan\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/12\/11\/armenia-unlawful-rocket-missile-strikes-azerbaijan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Armenia, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/europe\/central-asia\/armenia\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/europe\/central-asia\/armenia<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For more Human Rights Watch reporting on arms, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/arms\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/arms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To support our work, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.hrw.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/donate.hrw.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2OJePrw\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2OJePrw<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/11\/azerbaijan-unlawful-strikes-in-nagorno-karabakh\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read more: https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/12\/11\/azerbaijan-unlawful-strikes-nagorno-karabakh (Berlin, December 11, 2020) \u2013 Azerbaijani forces carried out apparently indiscriminate attacks in Stepanakert in violation of the laws of war during the conflict in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}