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

civilians, civilian property, and towns, villages, dwellings which are not military
objectives should be protected. It is a grave breach of the Additional Protocol 1 of
1977 of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime in accordance with the article 8
(b) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court that Armenia targeted

civilian people and buildings and caused casualties. Moreover, civilian casualties were
caused by ballistic missile, heavy artillery and cluster munition attacks, which is clearly
a war crime due to the properties and actual/potential damage caused by such weapons.
As part of the inspection visit to Azerbaijan, the city of Ganja - one of Azerbaijan’s
oldest cities and the second largest city of the country - was also visited to see the
destruction caused by the Armenian attacks on the city. The significance of Ganja

in this context is that the city was attacked although it was located very far from the
conflict zone and it did not hold any object that would give the Azerbaijani army
any military advantage. Since Ganja is a historical city, it was observed that the
historical and cultural artifacts of the city were severely harmed, including the
campus of the Imamzadeh Mosque and the historical Orthodox Church. Again,
it is a war crime under the Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of ICC that
Armenian forces hit Ganja by missiles, damaged places of worship, and caused
civilian casualties, even though the city had a largely civilian population and was
located far from the conflict zone.