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Online Petition Demands Meeting Between International Red Cross and
Armenian Soldier Held in Baku
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18:02, August 17, 2013
A petition has been launched urging the International Red Cross to
exert pressure on Azerbaijan to allow for a meeting between the ICRC
Baku office and Hakob Indjigulyan, the Armenian soldier who
inadvertently strayed in Azerbaijani territory from Artsakh.
Mikayel Ghazarian, a Yerevan resident who launched the petition,
prefaces it by writing: `We are shocked that the representatives of
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have yet not been
able to meet the Armenian serviceman within a week of his the
Azerbaijani captivity. The employees of the ICRC Baku Office requested
the Azerbaijani government for a meeting with the captive POW but were
rejected because of religious holidays.'
The petition states that Hakob Indjigulyan's relatives, the Armenian
government, and the International Red Cross in Baku and Yerevan, thus
are not aware of the soldier's true condition, which is an outright
violation of the Third Geneva Convention (1949).
The petition also condemns the Baku authorities for a video interview
of the soldier that appeared on several Azerbaijani news websites,
accusing it of distorting the facts of the case.
The accusation is that Indjigulyan's statement, made in Armenian, was
translated in such a way as to give the impression that the Armenian
soldier consciously crossed the border.
From: A. Papazian
Armenian Soldier Held in Baku
http://hetq.am/eng/news/28765/online-petition-demands-meeting-between-international-red-cross-and---armenian-soldier-held-in-baku.html
18:02, August 17, 2013
A petition has been launched urging the International Red Cross to
exert pressure on Azerbaijan to allow for a meeting between the ICRC
Baku office and Hakob Indjigulyan, the Armenian soldier who
inadvertently strayed in Azerbaijani territory from Artsakh.
Mikayel Ghazarian, a Yerevan resident who launched the petition,
prefaces it by writing: `We are shocked that the representatives of
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have yet not been
able to meet the Armenian serviceman within a week of his the
Azerbaijani captivity. The employees of the ICRC Baku Office requested
the Azerbaijani government for a meeting with the captive POW but were
rejected because of religious holidays.'
The petition states that Hakob Indjigulyan's relatives, the Armenian
government, and the International Red Cross in Baku and Yerevan, thus
are not aware of the soldier's true condition, which is an outright
violation of the Third Geneva Convention (1949).
The petition also condemns the Baku authorities for a video interview
of the soldier that appeared on several Azerbaijani news websites,
accusing it of distorting the facts of the case.
The accusation is that Indjigulyan's statement, made in Armenian, was
translated in such a way as to give the impression that the Armenian
soldier consciously crossed the border.
From: A. Papazian