Chairman of the Yerkrapah Volunteer Union, Armenian MP Manvel Grigoryan thinks that the Azeri raiders, who illegally penetrated into Artsakh, must be convicted jus in bello, i.e. they must be shot down.
"I have repeatedly said that they must be shot down. They killed a minor; they crossed the border for espionage. What judicial proceeding are you speaking about? They should have been kil
led during the detention", Grigoryan said to journalists on Saturday. When replying to the journalists' remarks that such a behavior would have caused the criticism of international structures, Grigoryan said, "Why did these international structures keep silence when the Azeri raiders killed a child?"
For his part, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said that he follows the proceeding of the raiders. He thinks that the proceeding is going on in compliance with all international standards. "This process has demonstrated that Artsakh, like any normal democratic country, has a developed judicial system and the raiders will be punished", he said.
To note, the court has already held three sessions on the Azeri raiders' case. According to the raiders' testimonies, the murders had been committed by Hasan Hasanov, who was killed when being detained. In other issues, the testimonies are at variance.
According to Nagorno-Karabakh's Police, on 29 June 2014, Shahbaz Jalal oghli Guliyev, Dilham Gardashkhan oghli Askerov and Hasan Hasanov illegally penetrated into the territory of NKR having with them arms and ammunition and attempted a sabotage attack. They were spying and even kidnapped minor Smbat Tsakanayn, a citizen of NKR on 4 July, who was later found with deadly wounds to the head. Afterwards, on 11 July, on the Vardenis-Karvachar road, Hasanov murdered a resident of Yerevan Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971) and wounded Karine Davtyan, a resident of Dzoraghbyur village on the grounds of national hatred. He was rendered harmless after showing armed resistance to the Armenian forces. The other two raiders were arrested.
Shahbaz Guliyev, 46, and Dilham Askerov, 54, were charged under the NKR Criminal Code's Article 316 (spying), Article 350 part 2 (violation of the NKR's border by an organized group), Article 245 part 3 (illegal carrying of arms and ammunition), Article 129 part 3 point 1 (kidnapping, actions against a minor with the use of arms), Article 103 part 2 points 3,7,14 (murder combined with kidnapping by an organized group out of ethnic hatred) and Articles 33 and 103 part 1 point 14 (attempted murder of two or more people by an organized group out of ethnic hatred).