"Serious violations" refer to violations of the provisions of the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 and their First Protocol of June 8, 1977, and are terminologically reflected in the authentic texts of these legal acts in English and French.

Serious violations include, on the one hand, violations of the norms and principles aimed at the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, and on the other hand, violations of the rules limiting the means and methods of conducting military operations, or the customs and laws of war."

According to APA, this was said by Nizami Safarov, a member of the Legal Policy and State Building Committee of the Milli Majlis, at the conference on "Armenia's war crimes against Azerbaijan in the last 30 years" organized by the Social Research Center (SCM).

Nizami Safarov said that these two points characterize the war crimes committed by the armed forces of Armenia and the puppet separatist regime. should be done.

However, one important issue should be considered here.

The war crimes committed by Armenians are the logical result of the asymmetric war waged by the enemy against Azerbaijan.

Asymmetric war can be conducted at different levels - military-strategic, operational, political levels and in different forms (for example, using terrorist methods),

but in each case, it involves a clear violation of international legal norms and principles that have been formed for many years and regulate armed conflicts, and as a result, the commission of war crimes.

Typical indicators of asymmetric war - attacks on the civilian population and civilian infrastructure objects, use of prohibited weapons of war - cluster (cassette), phosphorous ammunition, cruel and inhumane treatment of hostages and prisoners of war, torture and their killing, long-term and large-scale damage to the environment , involvement of mercenaries and children in military operations and so on".

The deputy noted that Armenia joined the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols on June 7, 1993, and since that time, compliance with the provisions of these documents was already a legal obligation: "However, violation of international humanitarian law has become common for the Armenian side, which does not settle with international agreements at all.

Among the war crimes committed by Armenians, attacks on the civilian population and civilian infrastructure facilities are the first.

The Fourth Geneva Convention - "Regarding the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War" strictly prohibits such attacks.

According to Article 51, Part 2 of Additional Protocol No. I "On the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts", the civilian population and individual civilians cannot be the object of attack.

Paragraph "a" of Article 85, Part 2 of that Protocol prohibits the targeting of the civilian population and individual civilians, and such acts are regarded as a war crime.

Another war crime committed by the Armenian side is the use of prohibited weapons.

Cluster munitions are containers of munitions that explode in the air and release a large number of explosive elements or "small bombs" over a wide area.

Depending on the model, the number of these "small bombs" can be from dozens of elements to more than 600.

Munitions of this type do not have the ability to select targets, and according to numerous studies, 98 percent of the victims of cluster bombs are civilians.

Adopted on May 30, 2008,

According to the Dublin Convention on Cluster Munitions, which came into force on August 1, 2010 and has 110 participants, the production, collection, and use of this type of ammunition is prohibited.

It should be noted that even before the adoption of this convention, the use of cluster munitions was of great concern, and on November 28, 2003, in Geneva, the Convention on Explosive Remnants of War on the Prohibition and Restriction of the Use of Specific Conventional Weapons That Cause Excessive Injuries or Indiscriminate Weapons was adopted. It manifested itself in the adoption of the Protocol (Protocol V).

According to Nizami Safarov, modern international criminal law describes the use of cluster munitions as a war crime: "According to Article 8 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, "infringing the norms of the law of international armed conflicts, causing excessive injuries, causing unnecessary suffering or not selecting a target based on its nature the use of weapons, ammunition, equipment or methods of war" causes individual international criminal responsibility.

Illegal settlement - According to paragraph 6 of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention "On the Protection of the Civilian Population in Time of War", "The occupying power cannot deport or transfer a part of its civilian population to the territory it occupies."

This article is drawn to the attention of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) according to Article 85, Part 4, Clause "a", "the transfer of a part of its civilian population to the territory occupied by the occupying power is considered a serious violation of this Protocol".

That is, these actions contain the content of war crimes.

Confirmation of this can be found in the Statute of the International Criminal Court, which was adopted at the Rome Diplomatic Conference on July 17, 1998 and entered into force on July 1, 2002.

The commission of the act specified in Article 85 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) in Sub-paragraph "vii" of Article 8, Part 2 of that Statute, causes international criminal responsibility.

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