Based\non the\nUN Working Group\u2019s recommendations on the use of mercenaries, a group of Armenian civil society organizations has developed and\nsubmitted a comprehensive report on the Use of Mercenaries by Azerbaijan and Turkey in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\nreport was developed based on the evidence and data collected\nthrough the\nresearch, as well as the field work conducted\nby a group of Armenian researchers and human rights defenders during and after\nthe 44-Day War in the\nNagorno-Karabakh in 2020. The discovered and presented evidence proves that Syrian mercenaries were recruited and transferred by Turkey to Azerbaijan\nfor combat against the Armenians of Artsakh and that those recruits got engaged in the combat for\nprivate gain, thus constituting a violation of International Humanitarian Law\n(IHL). All the evidence\nand witness testimonies were documented in the \u201cHuman rights violations\nduring the 44-day war in Artsakh\u201d factfinding report, developed by a number of Armenian civil\nsociety organizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\nthe report submitted to the UN Working Group, civil society organizations notes that among the victims\nof those Syrian mercenaries, who had been recruited and transferred to Azerbaijan for combat\nagainst the Armenians of Artsakh in the 2020 war, were both soldiers of the Armed forces of the Republic of Armenia\nand Artsakh, and civilians, including elderly persons who had not managed to get evacuated from the\ncommunities during the war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOfficial Baku\u2019s policy on Armenophobia and spreading hatred against ethnic Armenians practically\nprecludes all prospects of seeking remedies for the victims of mercenaries\u201d, says\nthe civil society organizations\u2019 submission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They called on UN bodies to further investigate the recruitment and deployment by\nTurkey and Azerbaijan of mercenaries in the context of this and other conflicts, as well\nas place sanctions against high-ranking\nTurkish and Azerbaijani officials inculpated in planning, orchestrating, or\nenabling Syrian mercenarism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The civil society representatives\nalso suggested to share this information with\nthe International Criminal Court in order to ensure and create accountability for Azerbaijan and Turkey private\nrecruiters and States for engaging and deploying mercenaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The civil society representatives also expressed their concern over the fact that in its statement the UN Working group included the false allegations of Azerbaijan. They emphasized that, by\nsignaling equality between the two sides, the organization and other\ninternational organizations deepen the atmosphere of impunity and limit the\npossibility of compensation for victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report was developed and submitted by Open Society Foundations-Armenia<\/em>, Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly – Vanadzor Office<\/em> NGO, Protection of Rights without Borders<\/em> NGO, Transparency International Anticorruption Center<\/em> NGO, Public Journalism Club<\/em> NGO, Law Protection and Development Foundation, Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation<\/em> NGO, and For Equal Rights<\/em> NGO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Based on the UN Working Group\u2019s recommendations on the use of mercenaries, a group of Armenian civil society organizations has developed and submitted a comprehensive report on the Use of Mercenaries by Azerbaijan and Turkey in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. This report was developed based on the evidence and data collected through the research, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,74],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34055,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30833\/revisions\/34055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}