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18 November 2020 - 11:44 AMT

Azerbaijani soldiers filmed dragging, kicking elderly Armenian

Azerbaijani TikTok users have been disseminating a video of Azeri soldiers dragging and kicking a barefoot elderly man. According to footage, the man is Armenian, and the video was taken on November 8.

Another elderly Armenian, 84-year-old Misha Melkumyan, died in captivity as a result of torture in Azerbaijan.

Social media users continue spreading more videos of Azeri troops committing war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh, although the war ended on November 10.

Azerbaijani soldier have been filmed shooting Armenian servicemen from automatic rifles and handguns at close range. The Azerbaijanis earlier filmed their torture and brutal murder of two Armenian prisoners of war, one of them a civilian. They have also cut off fingers and ears of Armenians, both alive and dead.

Prisoners of war from Nagorno-Karabakh are regularly made fun of by Azeri troops who also mutilate bodies of fallen Armenian servicemen.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev have signed a statement to end the war in Karabakh after almost 45 days. Karabakh (Artsakh) President Arayik Harutyunyan has said he has agreed to the deal signed by Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan.