Azerbaijan captures former leader of Nagorno-Karabakh Charged with war crimes While the Armenian ethnic group in this land More than one-third of them have been evacuated.
Foreign news agencies reported that Azerbaijan has arrested Ruben Vardanian, a businessman who heads the ethnic Armenian government in Nagorno-Karabakh. The territory was isolated in Azerbaijan from November 2022 until last February. as he infiltrates a group of immigrants trying to reach Armenia.
This was after Azerbaijan carried out a lightning strike last week. Ethnic Armenian forces in Karabakh agreed to a ceasefire on the condition that they lay down their weapons and disband. As a result, Armenians in those regions feared being exterminated. So they flocked to migrate to Armenia.
Most recently, about 50,000 of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians have left Nagorno-Karabakh. They face intense scrutiny from Azerbaijani border guards, who say they are searching for suspected war crimes. Vardamian was arrested on Tuesday. and will be sent to Baku.
A source in the Azerbaijani government told AFP that the government intends to pardon Armenian armed fighters in Karabakh who lay down their weapons. But those who committed war crimes during the Karabakh war must be handed over to the authorities.
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2023-09-27 18:42:00
