Details of alleged atrocities committed by Azerbaijani forces during their attack on Armenia this week were presented to Armenia’s foreign diplomatic corps, who met with the Army Chief of Staff Edward Asryan on Friday in Jermuk, the site of some of the heaviest shelling.
Among the examples Asryan recounted was the brutal mutilation of a female Armenian soldier who was captured by Azerbaijani forces. The Army chief said he would show a video of the attack to the diplomats.
“They committed atrocities in our combat positions against our servicemen, including women soldiers,” Asryan said. “I cannot find words to describe how they dismembered a female soldier, cut off her legs, fingers and stripped her naked. This is unheard of cruelty.”
A graphic video depicting the attack that Asryan described has been circulating on social media on Friday. Asbarez reviewed the video, but will not publish it due to its graphic nature and the fact its authenticity could not be corroborated.
The soldier was identified as Anush Apetyan, 36, a mother of three children was reportedly captured alive in Jermuk and then raped, tortured and dismembered by Azerbaijani soldiers. They put her severed fingers in her mouth and gouged out her eye.
Asryan told the diplomats that no military force, unit or soldier of any country has the right to commit such atrocities. He called it a gross violation of the international humanitarian law, accusing Azerbaijan of committing war crimes.
He assured that the Armenian Armed Forces will continue taking all measures to ensure the military security of the homeland.
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