BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 8. Zabil Safarov, a victim who was taken hostage during the occupation of Azerbaijan's Kalbajar district, has testified in the trial at the Baku Military Court on May 8, Trend reports.
Zabil Safarov recounted that on April 4, 1993, Armenian armed forces entered Kalbajar and surrounded the area.
“When the Armenians placed me in a tank and took me away, my grandmother pleaded with them not to separate us. She begged them not to take me away from her. But they ignored her. After that, they killed my grandmother because she said, “Someday Azerbaijani army will liberate these lands.” After killing her, they took me to the village of Vang in Kalbajar. There, we were tortured and later transferred to another location in the district,” he said.
Safarov recalled that Armenian soldiers mistreated minors, women, and young girls taken hostage. He testified that they tortured everyone—including the elderly and children—and killed many of them.
“The Armenians heated a skewer and burned the body of an Azerbaijani soldier. While I was in Shusha "prison", I witnessed them burning the body of one of them. I saw the Armenians killing several Azerbaijanis by beating.
They also buried 23 people alive in front of my eyes, only their heads were left outside.
The Armenians tortured the Azerbaijanis so much that they could not stand it and killed themselves.
The soldiers of the Armenian army looted Azerbaijani cemeteries, pulled the bodies from the graves, robbed them, and insulted them.
Due to the tortures I was subjected to, my right ear is not hearing well, and my eyesight is weak. They broke my teeth," Safarov added.
The trial continues for Armenian nationals accused of crimes against peace and humanity, including war crimes, acts of terrorism, waging and preparing for aggressive war, genocide, violations of the laws and customs of war, forcible seizure and retention of power, and financing terrorism, among other offenses linked to Armenia’s military aggression.
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