As of October 28, in total 90 civilians, including children, women and elderly were killed, more than 380 civilians have been hospitalized with serious injuries
BAKU, OCT 2020 - Since September 27, 2020 the armed forces of Armenia have been targeting the civilian population, private houses and civilian infrastructure in Azerbaijan in a deliberate, widespread and systematic manner.
By doing so,
Armenia grossly violates its obligations under international humanitarian law,
including the 1949 Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocols as well as
disregards the humanitarian ceasefire declared on October 10, 18 and 25.
On October 28,
Armenia continued to escalate tensions with attacks in various directions,
including across the international border with Azerbaijan. The border regions
of Azerbaijan - Tovuz, Gadabay,
Dashkasan and Gubadli were fired by the enemy from the territory of Berd,
Chambarak, Vardenis and Gorus regions of Armenia.
Moreover,
Armenia’s armed forces continuously targeted Aghjabadi, Barda, Goranboy and
Tartar regions with heavy artillery, including “Smerch” and BM-21 “Grad”
multiple-launch rocket systems that caused enormous human suffering and damage
to civil infrastructure.
Azerbaijan
National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) reported that the Barda region was
attacked with 300mm “Smerch” 9M525 rockets containing 9N235 bomblets, which is
a cluster munition banned under the international law.
As of October 28, in total 90 civilians, including children, women and elderly were killed, more than 380 civilians have been hospitalized with serious injuries.
Currently, damages to private and public property being assessed (as of 27
October, reported damages were around 2300 private houses, 92 apartment
buildings and more than 400 civilian infrastructure).
Widespread and systematic rocket attacks
on the Barda city
On October 28, Armenia, acting on its stated policy of terror, committed another heinous crime against the civilians in Azerbaijan. Around 1pm local time, Armenia launched 300mm “Smerch” rockets with banned cluster munitions at densely populated areas of the Barda city (located apprx 100 km from Armenia’s border and 30 km away from the conflict zone), including its business center and surroundings.
As of
now, the General Prosecutor’s office confirmed 21 civilians killed and more
than 70 wounded. Civil infrastructure facilities and vehicles were extensively
damaged.
The attack on
Barda’s residential areas is the second deliberate attack within 20 hours with
banned munitions. Earlier, on October 27, as a result of Armenia’s attack using
the same type of cluster munition, four civilians died and thirteen civilians
were injured. In total, civilian casualties in the Barda region within 20 hours
are reportedly 108 with 25 killed and 83 injured (as of now, the list of
casualties are being clarified).
The attack on the Barda city is the
single, most blody
According to
ANAMA’s report, six locations (Husein Javid str., Baku str., Natavan str.,
Koroglu str., Bahadur Haciyev str. and Heydar Aliyev – Uzeir Hajibeyov
crossing) in the Barda city were hit with with 300mm “Smerch” 9M525 rockets
containing 9N235 bomblets.
This is another
terror act by the government of Armenia against the civil population of
Azerbaijan, follows a notorious pattern of terror acts earlier committed by
Armenia in Ganja, Tartar and other towns in a deliberate, widespread and
systematic manner. The policy of terror were publicly declared by Armenia’s
government officials as a strategy to strike at peaceful settlements in order
to cause panic.
The rocket
attacks against the civilian population in Barda, along with ballistic missile
attacks which Ganja and other towns constitute a war crime and a crime against
humanity perpetrated in a deliberate, widespread and systematic manner.
Below are photo evidences from the scene.
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