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ARMENIAN COMMISSION ON CAPTIVES, HOSTAGES AND MISSING PERSONS: MANVEL SARIBEKYAN WAS EITHER KILLED OR DRIVEN TO SUICIDE
ArmInfo
2010-10-05 22:12:00
ArmInfo. "We were deeply sad to learn the news about Manvel
Saribekyan's death disseminated by Azerbaijani media with reference
to a joint statement of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry and Military
Prosecutor's Office", - said Head of the Working Group of the Armenian
Commission on Captives, Hostages and Missing Persons Armen Kaprielyan
to ArmInfo correspondent when commenting on the statement about Manvel
Saribekyan's suicide.
He pointed out that no official confirmation of the fact of Manvel
Saribekyan's death has yet been received from the Azerbaijani party
via the International Committee of the Red Cross. "At the moment we
are working in various directions. I can say that the Azeris have
once again shown their true colors to the world. After suspension of
active military actions dozens of Armenians were cruelly tortured
and killed in Azerbaijani torture chambers, and many of those who
managed to return to the motherland were atrophied and crippled.
We have repeatedly drawn international organizations' attention
to the outrageous facts of Azerbaijan's ignoring the generally
accepted norms of the International Humanitarian Law and The Law
of International Human Rights Protection, elementary human rights,
however, unfortunately, those guilty for Armenians' deaths and tortures
in Azerbaijan are still at liberty and continue doing evil", - said
Kaprielyan. He added that Azerbaijani authorities still conceal the
truth about saribekyan and expressed confidence that Saribekyan, who
is insistently called diversionist by the Azerbaijani propaganda,
underwent beating, tortures, measures of psychological influence,
treatment that humiliates human dignity and is condemned by the
civilized international community as reflected in the Geneva
Conventions and additional protocols to them.
According to Kaprielyan, the conclusion is: Saribekyan, whom Azeris
tries to label as diversionist, terrorist and filicide to find approval
in their own public, was either killed or driven to suicide.
"In either of the versions we deal with a dirty crime directed
against humanity",- he said and stressed that the culprits should
be condemned with all strictness of the law because the death of an
Armenian citizen forcibly kept in Azerbaijani captivity can have no
justification and remain unpunished.
Manvel Saribekyan was a civilian, a shepherd and he was captured last
month. He found himself on the Azerbaijani side when looking for the
lost cattle.
From: A. Papazian
ArmInfo
2010-10-05 22:12:00
ArmInfo. "We were deeply sad to learn the news about Manvel
Saribekyan's death disseminated by Azerbaijani media with reference
to a joint statement of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry and Military
Prosecutor's Office", - said Head of the Working Group of the Armenian
Commission on Captives, Hostages and Missing Persons Armen Kaprielyan
to ArmInfo correspondent when commenting on the statement about Manvel
Saribekyan's suicide.
He pointed out that no official confirmation of the fact of Manvel
Saribekyan's death has yet been received from the Azerbaijani party
via the International Committee of the Red Cross. "At the moment we
are working in various directions. I can say that the Azeris have
once again shown their true colors to the world. After suspension of
active military actions dozens of Armenians were cruelly tortured
and killed in Azerbaijani torture chambers, and many of those who
managed to return to the motherland were atrophied and crippled.
We have repeatedly drawn international organizations' attention
to the outrageous facts of Azerbaijan's ignoring the generally
accepted norms of the International Humanitarian Law and The Law
of International Human Rights Protection, elementary human rights,
however, unfortunately, those guilty for Armenians' deaths and tortures
in Azerbaijan are still at liberty and continue doing evil", - said
Kaprielyan. He added that Azerbaijani authorities still conceal the
truth about saribekyan and expressed confidence that Saribekyan, who
is insistently called diversionist by the Azerbaijani propaganda,
underwent beating, tortures, measures of psychological influence,
treatment that humiliates human dignity and is condemned by the
civilized international community as reflected in the Geneva
Conventions and additional protocols to them.
According to Kaprielyan, the conclusion is: Saribekyan, whom Azeris
tries to label as diversionist, terrorist and filicide to find approval
in their own public, was either killed or driven to suicide.
"In either of the versions we deal with a dirty crime directed
against humanity",- he said and stressed that the culprits should
be condemned with all strictness of the law because the death of an
Armenian citizen forcibly kept in Azerbaijani captivity can have no
justification and remain unpunished.
Manvel Saribekyan was a civilian, a shepherd and he was captured last
month. He found himself on the Azerbaijani side when looking for the
lost cattle.
From: A. Papazian