ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN TRYING TO CLEAR THE FATE OF THE ARMENIAN PRISONER
Support A1+!Today RA Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan has sent a letter to Elmira Suleymanova, the Azerbaijani Human rights defender, the Red Cross International Committee, and the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Stepanakert delegations of the Committee.
It is particularly mentioned in the letter that according to the information spread by the International working group about the issues of war prisoners Zohrab Tamayan who was in military service in Noyemberyan has been taken captive my the Armenian armed forces.
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense has not confirmed the information, whereas the Azerbaijani independent experts have, and according to the Azerbaijani press the soldier has been take captive by the order of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
The Armenian Ombudsman has expressed his worriedness by the fate of the soldier especially taking into account the fact that the captive is representative of a national minority. It is well known that the Azerbaijanis treat the Kurd captives with special cruelty. “We have already had terrible experience – a Yezidi young men - an ex-prisoner of war who returned from Azerbaijan, committed suicide”, says the latter.
The RA Defender of human rights asked the above mentioned organization to wake the case into control securing the defense of Tamayan’s rights and the meeting of Geneva convention commitments.
“I think that cooperation in the settlement of humanitarian problems will allow us to reduce e tension and will contribute to the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict for the sake of stability and regional security”, mentioned Larissa Alaverdyan.
