Azerbaijani forces continued shelling civilian settlements and military positions of Nagorno Karabakh overnight.
The Defense Ministry of Armenia informs that 18 ceasefire violations were recorded in the northeastern part of Armenian-Azerbaijani state border on the night of April 26.
The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns any attempts of the Azerbaijani authorities to reconsider these agreements, regarding them as an overt intention of Azerbaijan to unleash a new war, and insists on the full restoration of the ceasefire regime established in May 1994.
Given the current situation, the Ministry of Defense of the NKR advises the Azerbaijani army to respect the arrangement on ceasing the fire reached between the parties on the latter’s request and warns against turning the peaceful settlements into firing positions and making them legitimate military targets. Otherwise, the Azerbaijan’s military-political command will bear the whole responsibility for the consequences.
As reported earlier, throughout last night the adversary used almost every artillery and armored equipment of its arsenal. In addition to targeting military positions, Azerbaijan shelled Martakert and Mataghis civilian settlements.
President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on April 26 dismissing Alik Mirzabekyan, Deputy Minister – Head of Logistics Department of the Ministry of Defense, Arshak Karapetyan, Intelligence Department Head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and Komitas Muradyan, Head of the Communications and ACS Department of the Defense Ministry.
“I disagree with opinions circulating in Armenia, that Moscow instigated it. Yes, Moscow sold armaments, demand for which was available. Moscow kept the balance between the sides. It’s also clear, if there is demand for weaponry, without maintenance of that influence, armaments would have been available and used on this conflict zone. “
It’s “unreasonable” for Armenia to return to peace talks with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory without security guarantees because “the situation is entirely different now,” he said. “On the one hand we’d be talking somewhere while, on the other, military officials would be engaging in war here to try to settle the conflict,” he said.
When the word ‘genocide’ wasn’t introduced into the lexicon, everybody perfectly knew features of the word. Cruelty lies on its ground, and not self-defense, not even the war, but targeted extermination of a whole nation. It happened to the Armenian people 101 years ago, and after that we again and again see it’s repetition in different programs: Germany, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda.
Young people beaten by police. A person’s head cut off. Murders. And not just any killings—brutal massacres, including the deaths of her seven children. She’s seen it all. She has feared for her own life as she became the subject of government harassment and death threats, forcing her to flee her country with nothing but a pair of trousers.
