Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 12 / Trend , K.Zarbaliyeva, I.Alizade/ The Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor supports establishment of public supervision institution to clear up reasons of suicides and other death facts in the Armed Forces.
"It is possible to establish such an institution and it will be established soon. I cannot say anything about form of public supervision over the Armed Forces," Khanlar Valiyev, Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor, told journalists on Dec. 12.
Some of experts believe that soldiers' death is often described as suicides
Violations and illegal actions in the army cause desertions and suicides, Alakbar Mammadov, the head of the Azerbaijan Democratic Citizen Supervision Centre for Armed Forces, said.
According to the expert, averagely about 60 illegal death and suicides take place in the army a year. Illegal death incidents take place mostly because of commanders' irresponsibility's, Mammadov said, mentioning that this statistic is more than number of soldiers, killed by enemies.
According to experts who attribute suicides and death cases to insult, torture towards soldiers, such facts are often hidden by the commanders of military units.
"Such facts are not investigated by law-enforcement agencies impartially and the soldier who commits suicide is blamed for everything. It enables crimes to go unpunished. The absence of punishment paves a way for new illegal steps of responsible persons," expert said.
MP Aydin Mirzazade, deputy chairman of Parliament's permanent commission on security and defense, expresses regret for illegal deaths, suicide and considers it important to remove the reason for it.
The MP suggests increasing the role of the military psychologists, strengthening psychological preparedness of the soldiers.
Independent military experts claim recent rise of suicides amongst soldiers.
Number of all crimes against military service was reduced in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in 2008, the Military Prosecutor said.
Number of suicide cases drop amongst military servicemen, the Military Prosecutor said. Suicides amongst servicemen take place because of family dispute and illegal actions in military service, Valiyey said, regretting for presence of suicide facts in the Azerbaijani army.
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