RED CROSS COMMITTEE BAKU OFFICE REPS. MEET 7 ARMENIAN CAPTIVES
March 13, 2014 – 14:25 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Representatives of the Baku Office of the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met with seven
Armenian citizens held captive in Azerbaijan -Verin Karmiragbyur
border village resident Arsen Khojoyan, serviceman Hakob Injigulyan,
and a family of 5.
An exchange of letters took place during the meeting, with talks
for more frequent meetings with the captives under way, ICRC Yerevan
office representative Zara Amatuni toldPanARMENIAN.Net
Khojoyan crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on March 7. According
to preliminary information, he lost his way in a thick fog. The
23-year old is a relative of Mamikon Khojoyan, 77 who was recently
released from Azeri captivity.
The 77-year-old man was tortured during his more than month-long
captivity and needs to remain in hospital for the time being, doctors
and his relatives said.
Baku has claimed all along that the elderly resident of Verin
Karmiraghbyur, an Armenian village close to the Azerbaijani border,
was armed and acted as a guide for an Armenian “sabotage squad”
that tried to carry out a cross-border incursion.
The Armenian military and the village administration have laughed off
these claims, saying that Khojoyan suffers mental disorders and strayed
into Azerbaijani territory by accident. Some Azerbaijani analysts have
also brushed aside the official Azerbaijani version of his detention.
On the night of Aug 8, Injighulyan, born in 1991, failed to find his
bearings on the ground and crossed into the Azeri-controlled territory.
Azeri media outlets have since been spreading information suggesting
the captive is unwilling to return to Armenia.
However, Injighulyan never mentioned his unwillingness to return
to Armenia in a meeting with ICRC representatives, with Azerbaijani
Prisoners of War Commission Secretary noting he sees no problem with
the captive’s return.
Armenia has repeatedly slammed the “interviews” with Injighulyan as
forced by Baku and urged the ICRC to take every effort to help the
captive’s return, with no persecution to be initiated against him in
the absence of crime in the act.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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