14 դեկտեմբեր, 2020 21:53
The Russian plane carrying 44 Armenian POWs landed in Yerevan's Erebuni airport.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have began the process of exchanging prisoners of war (POWs), Russian RIA Novosti reports, citing official Baku.
Both sides had previously stated that they were ready to exchange prisoners on a "all for all" basis. This principle is important for Baku and refers to spies captured in Karabakh before the 2020 war.
On December 5, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that a principle had been agreed that everyone should be exchanged, including those captured before the war.
A report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Azerbaijani forces have inhumanely treated numerous ethnic Armenian military troops captured in the Karabakh conflict. In most of the videos, the captors’ faces are visible, suggesting that they did not fear being held accountable, HRW notes.