War Crimes and Violations

Azerbaijan violated international law countless times during the Artsakh war. Below is a compilation of Azerbaijani war crimes and violations (last updated 12/13/20).

• Videos of Azerbaijanis brutally executing Armenian Prisoners of War and civilians were uploaded to social media and authenticated.

  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54645254

• These executions include beheadings, skinnings, mutilations, stabbings, and firing squads.

• NOTE: We are not directly sharing access to these photos and videos here. However, the article provided will redirect you to the firing squad execution. We are issuing a trigger warning here for death, violence, and gunfire.

• Azerbaijan and Turkey hired Jihadist terrorists to fight against the volunteer army of Artsakh.

  • Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, stated: “I can announce that more than 300 Syrian Islamist militants, who had earlier left the Aleppo region, have been transferred to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone through the Turkish Gaziantep. This is a confirmed fact, these people are identified, all of them are affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist organization. I have discussed this issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who confirmed that Russia also possesses this information.”

  • Read more about it here: https://sofrep.com/news/france-turkey-has-sent-300-isis-fighters-to-azerbaijan/

• "Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, Article 52, provides for the general protection of civilian objects"

  • In a direct violation of the Geneva Convention, civilians are subject to continuous shelling by Azerbaijan.

• After a month of war, the Armenian death count (civilians and soldiers) rose well over 1,000.

• Azerbaijanis are creating fake social media accounts based on real Armenian ones.

  • On Instagram, there's been a surge of accounts impersonating @artsakharmy, which is a pro-Armenian account. These fake accounts post explicit and disrespectful anti-Armenian content -- most notably, photos and videos of dead Armenian soldiers and the brutal, inhumane executions of Armenian POWs and civilians.

    • This content violates Instagram's community guidelines.

• Again, we will not post the photos/videos shown on these accounts here, as they are incredibly graphic. Because they are available to publicly view on Instagram/Twitter, we would like to issue a trigger warning for violence, death, mutilation, and gunfire.