22:33, 4 November 2020

Nagorno-Karabakh reports 190 civilian casualties

Graves of the people killed in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. November 2, 2020. Photo: Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure

Since the beginning of the escalation of the Karabakh conflict, 46 people were killed and 144 others were injured during shelling attacks on cities, towns, and villages in Nagorno-Karabakh, reports Artak Beglaryan, Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh. He associates most of the casualties with cluster bombing.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan announced that the Nagorno-Karabakh troops were shelling five villages in the Terter and Aghjabadi Districts, while the Armenian armed forces were striking villages in the border Agdam District. In turn, Nagorno-Karabakh reported about casualties among civilians as a result of a shelling attack on the city of Shushi.

Artak Beglaryan, Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh, has emphasized that the data may be incomplete due to the lack of the information from the villages, towns, and cities, which still stay under the fire, the "Aysor" reports.

According to Artak Beglaryan, most of the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh suffered as a result of the use of cluster bombs by the Azerbaijani armed forces, the "Sputnik Armenia" reported. The Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsman added that more than 13,800 houses and apartments were damaged and destroyed in Karabakh.

It should be noted that Azerbaijan also accused the Armenian side of shelling attacks on civilian settlements with cluster bombs. According to the human rights organizations "Amnesty International" (AI) and the "Human Rights Watch" (HRW), on October 29, the use of cluster bombs led to the mass deaths of people in the Azerbaijani city of Barda. The human rights defenders called on the parties to the Karabakh conflict to stop using cluster weapons.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 4, 2020 at 03:30 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.