Criminal cases in new section
The web-site of the RA General Prosecutor's Office (www.genproc.am/sumgait)has launched a new section which features materials materials on criminal processes initiated after Armenian pogroms in the territory of Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh in 1980s and 1990s.
In particular, the testimonies of eye-witnesses, victims, their relatives and successors, exhibit photos and documents, list of the killed, kidnapped and missing people are placed on the site as well as the lists of the people including employees of law-enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan who are accused of participating in the policy of Armenians' mass killings in Armenian villages and implementing the vandalism against the Armenians and are being searched now.
The information of the section was regulated due to the subheadings taking into consideration the types of the crimes against the humanity and the geography. The section "Sumgait" has four divisions with its subdivisions according to the types of the committed crimes and administrative districts.
In particular, in the section "Sumgait" the testimonies of the eye-witnesses, victims, their relatives and successors on the murder, rape, violence and capture against the Armenians are included, in the section "Documents" the deciphered documents summarizing the materials of the criminal case are included, in the section "Nagorno Karabagh" the materials of the criminal cases are put according to the administrative and territorial units and in the section "Getashen" there are the testimonies of the victims and witnesses.
We think that this structure would make the process of getting information easier.
The works of creating an electronic archive of the materials of the criminal cases initiated on the mass killings against the Armenians of Nagorno Karabagh in the Soviet Azerbaijan at the end of 1980s and at the beginning of 1990s started about a year ago in September 2009 and include several thousand documents.
The archive was developed together with the NGO "Xenophobia Prevention Initiative" and a number of volunteers, and the web-site was created by programmer Aram Mkhitaryan.
The web-site will be supplemented with the materials of the criminal cases, documents as well as new sections. In particular, "Baku" section will be added in the near future including the application and testimonies of Armenian refugees from Baku about the ferocities against the Armenians in the capital of Azerbaijan Baku.
It is necessary to mention that the testimonies are partially shortened as according to the materials of the criminal cases the mass killings against the Armenians were organized by the law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan as well who warned the population not to shelter and hide their Armenian neighbors by threatening to revenge, and taking into consideration the fact that in separate cases the Armenians managed to survive with the support and help of their Azerbaijani and Russian neighbors, the exact addresses of the Armenians and the names of the Azerbaijanis who helped them are not publicized for their security.
