Azerbaijan violates Geneva Convention interviewing Armenian captive
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YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS: The Azerbaijani side again violates the clauses of the Geneva Convention, which relate to the citizens, who crossed the border accidentally and taken hostage and which envisage that no pressure and no public broadcast should be imposed on them. Armenpress reports that the Azerbaijani Anspress Agency, again ignoring the clauses of the Geneva Convention, interviewed the Armenian captive Sargis Ananyan, who crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and has been transferred to the hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan and published the video of the interview.
The video shows how the Armenian captive tells about his intention to cross the border and surrender to the Azerbaijani side. According to Ananyan, he made that step “because of unsatisfactory conditions”. The Armenian captive told that he had two sons, who left for Yerevan and Russia from Noyemberyan to earn living. His only wish is to get connected with the sons, saying that “he will return to Armenia only when the economic situation in the country improves”. According to the video, broadcast by the Azerbaijani media, Ananyan, who has got problems with his leg, is “under the care in the hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan”.
Sargis Ananyan, born in 1961, is a resident of Noyemberyan town. He crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and appeared in Ghazakh Village. The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan has posted Sargis Ananyan’s photo and a video. The Azerbaijani side insists that Ananyan has crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on August 26. The neighbors of the Armenian captive in Noyemberyan told Armenpress that Sargis lived alone. According to the Azerbaijani media, Sargis Ananyan has got serious health problems.