Although Azerbaijan said that the people who lived there could stay in the area, most Armenians decided to leave. However, this did not happen immediately, so the handover of the district on 15 November was postponed for ten days for humanitarian reasons. Many not only took away all their property, but also burned down their houses so that the Azerbaijanis could not use them. The ruins of burned houses now stand in the area.
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The Azerbaijani Ministry of the Environment is already preparing a lawsuit to bring to the Hague International Court of Justice, because in some cases forests have been set on fire. According to the Armenian government, some forests started burning after Azerbaijani shelling because phosphorus ammunition was used.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev promised in a televised speech that he would defend the “national heritage” in the form of many religious monuments in the Kelbadjar district, where the Dadivank monastery is important, and criticized Armenians for “setting fire to forests and houses they did not build.” departure. Aliyev complained, according to the AP, that he had not found a “single standing building” during a search of cities that had been captured by Azerbaijani troops in southern Karabakh during six weeks of fighting, or had been destroyed by Armenia under an agreement, “destroyed everything.”
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However, most Armenians built their own houses and did not move into the houses of the Azeris, who fled the area in the early 1990s, when districts near Nagorno-Karabakh with a mixed population were conquered by Armenian troops.
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An AFP correspondent saw the Armenian residents on the spot, cutting down trees, cutting power lines and loading parts of a hydroelectric plant before leaving.
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The Azerbaijani agency Trend has indicated that burning houses and forests could be a war crime.
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The agency indicated that the European Commission could also address the issue. However, the spokesman for the commission received a vague answer, which does not indicate that the commission intends to engage in this issue: “We record various information and various complaints from various parties about the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding territories. Because we do not have direct access to these territories, it is very difficult to verify these claims. “
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Armenia has already handed over the district of Agdam to Azerbaijan and is expected to cede the Lacin district by 1 December. These districts of Azerbaijan formed in the early 1990s, when Armenian forces conquered the ramparts around Nagorno-Karabakh. In the 1990s, Azerbaijanis had to flee in the opposite direction. The current mood in Baku was described by the agency as euphoria.
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The six-week struggle for Nagorno-Karabakh broke out on September 27, killing several thousand people.
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