ArmInfo. 70-80% of Azerbaijani Armed Forces servicemen on Artsakh contact line are Talysh, Tats and Udins, during the "The Stepanakert blockade breakthrough. 25 years later" expert meeting an Azerbaijani journalist with Talysh origins Shakhin Mirzoev said, who received asylum with his family in Armenia.
The Armenian Authorities satisfied Mirzoev's request to provide a temporary asylum. Being a Talysh Culture Council member, Talysh liberation movement participant and "Talysh Sado" newspaper employee, Mirzoev had to escape Azerbaijan because of the gross violation of the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, and with his family come to Armenia.
"Representatives of national minorities taken to army forcibly and immediately sent to the grinder at the forefront, what explains the fact that the majority of casualties are Talysh, Tats and Udins. The other 20- 30% of so called locals, serve were possible but not at forefront, for example, in warehouses", he noted.
According to Mirzoev, it appears that the minorities cannot refuse the compulsory service considering the fact that in that case they will endanger own lives but the lives of their families as well. "Whole family will suffer. I am currently in Armenia, and my 92-year-old father in Azerbaijan is made to refuse from me. Maybe he as an old man does not even understand what is happening", resumed Mirzoev.