Question. Mr. Kocharyan, how would you comment on the fact, that the Azerbaijani president awarded and had a photo with the Azerbaijani soldier, who, according to the Azerbaijani news sites, days ago was demonstratively depicted on a photo with the cut off head of Qyaram Sloyan, serviceman of the NK Defense Army?
Shavarsh Kocharyan. Encouragement of crimes of such kind by the highest state level, is not new for Azerbaijan. Ramil Safarov, who axe-murdered the Armenian soldier in his sleep in Budapest and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hungarian Court, was released by the president of Azerbaijan right after being extradited to Baku in 2012, and then awarded and glorified.
Targeted bombardment of schools, during which schoolchildren were killed and injured, torturing and tormenting to death the elderly people, mutilation of bodies of captured NK servicemen during the military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh in early April, proves that Azerbaijan has adopted a policy of perpetration of terror acts and crimes against humanity, encouraged and guided on state level.
While the international community fights against barbaric actions of terrorist groups, Azerbaijan, a country which is considered a subject of the international law, carries out actions of the same inhumane style.