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The Report on Human Rights Violations Committed by the
Armenian Armed Forces during Azerbaijan & Armenia War 13

large number of civilians including children, women, individuals with disabilities,
and elderly individuals. It was informed that although three ceasefire agreements
had been declared so far, they all failed to stop the attacks.

As is known, Upper Karabakh and 7 surrounding districts have been under
Armenian occupation for three decades and the UN Security Council has issued
4 resolutions calling for withdrawal of Armenia from the territory which is a part

of Azerbaijan. Furthermore, attacks launched with the use of indiscriminate and
therefore prohibited weapons resulting in killings of civilians are clear violation
of human rights. Chief Ombudsman and Chairman of OICOA Şeref Malkoç
organised an inspection visit to Azerbaijan on 21 -23 October 2020, accompanied
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by a delegation from the Ombudsman Institution, with the aim of investigating the
current claims in the light of the aforementioned observations.

During the inspection visit, the delegation held meetings with Fikret Memmedov,
Minister of Justice of The Republic of Azerbaijan; Farhad Abdullayev, Chairman
of Constitutional Court; Chief Prosecutor Kamran Aliyev; Tural Ganjaliyev,
Chairman of the Azerbaijani Community of the Nagorno-Karabakh Region of
Azerbaijan; and Zeki Öztürk, Consul-General of the Republic of Türkiye to Ganja
and travelled to the cities of Ganja and Mingachevir. The visit also provided
additional opportunities to assess the conclusions of joint investigations undertaken
in the cities of Ganja and Mingachevir with Azerbaijan Ombudsperson Sabina
Aliyeva who accompanied the delegation throughout the visit.

Following the agreement signed on 10 November 2020 between Russia, Armenia,
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and Azerbaijan, which after the afore-mentioned visit, the conflicts stopped
and Armenia conceded to the demand for its retreat from the districts under
its occupation. However, the present Report aims to provide the international
community and human rights advocates with a depiction of the findings and
observations gathered through on-site investigations and meetings with relevant
officials with respect to the claims of human rights violations as a result of the
attacks launched by Armenia during the conflicts.