Monday, February 1 2021 12:37

ArmInfo. When Kurdistan   (Red) was formed in 1923 with the aim of artificially separating  Artsakh from Armenia, border disputes with Zangezur of the Armenian  SSR became especially aggravated. The Ombudsman of Armenia Arman  Tatoyan wrote about this on his Facebook page. At the same time, the  human rights defender of Armenia stated that one of the main concerns  of the inhabitants of Zangezur at that time was quite rightly  questions about the rights of villagers to land, winter and summer  pastures and gardens.

"For example, in October 1925, A. Erznkyan's reference to the Land  Committee of the Armenian SSR said that the regions west of the  border with Meghri and Karyagino (Jebrail) were mainly winter  pastures, which were actually used by residents of the villages of  Kapan and Meghri who did not One of the main reasons was that without  these pastures, cattle breeding in the villages of these regions  would have been paralyzed.  In another case, the head of the local  commission on demarcation of the border between the Zangezur and  Kurdistan regions, Y. Kochetkov, for example, substantiated his  disagreement with the proposals of the Azerbaijani side about the  village of Thut by the fact that this is one of the Shvanidzor  districts where the lands (gardens and pastures) are so intertwined.  that it would be impossible to separate them.  The same disputes over  the rights of villagers took place between the villages of Kapan and  Zangelan, Khoznavar and Azerbaijani villages.  From the materials of  the local and especially the Central Commission of the USSR for the  resolution of border disputes in 1924, 1926, 1929, 1935 and other  years, it is clear that the rights of rural residents of the USSR  were always not fully discussed. For example, they ignored the small  number of Zangezur lands and the ties between villages  (administrative, economic, etc.). The difficulties that could arise  from the point of view of the rights of the villagers were not taken  into account.  Full attention was not paid to the security of  villages (attacks by various gangs on Armenian villages from  Kurdistan, thefts, etc.), which directly affected the use of pastures  and other lands by villagers (for example, when 21 villages of the  Kapan region near the basin of the Vokhji and Basut rivers were  transferred to the Jebrail velayat of Azerbaijan by the decision of  the inter-union presidium of February 1929), "Tatoyan emphasized.   Taking into account the above, the Ombudsman continued, the rights of  the citizens of the Republic of Armenia should form the basis of  decisions in the process of determining the boundaries, it is  necessary to take into account all the mistakes made in the past,  draw the necessary lessons from them and not allow violations or  ignorance of rights.  Earlier, the Ombudsman of Armenia said that the  Azerbaijani military opened fire in the immediate vicinity of the  villages of Chakaten, Nerkin Hand, Shikaogh, Yeghvard, Agarak,  Uzhanis of the Kapan region of the Syunik region of Armenia, both  from small arms and large-caliber weapons.  "Both the residents of  all the villages mentioned and the local self-government bodies  submit alarming complaints to the Human Rights Defender that the  shooting takes place regularly, both during the day and at night.  According to alarming information, in the villages, shooting is  clearly audible, aimed at intimidating civilians, primarily children  and women.  At the same time, the residents of the village noted that  there are frequent cases when Azerbaijani soldiers shoot drunk. It  was then that the shooting was carried out from large-caliber weapons  and was intense.  A delegation led by the Human Rights Defender was  informed of these shootings on January 9, 2021, while visiting  Chakaten and other villages in Kapan. Even then, it was directly  established that the shooting leads to tension in the villages. These  criminal, absolutely condemned acts of the Azerbaijani armed forces  must be completely ruled out. They have become a real threat to the  civilian population's rights to life and health, physical and mental  integrity, as well as other internationally recognized rights and  rights guaranteed by the Armenian Constitution. They also grossly  violate the interests of children.  This fact once again confirms the  conviction of the Human Rights Defender that the presence of the  Azerbaijani armed forces in the immediate vicinity of the border  regions of Armenia, on intercommunal and interstate roads, poses a  real threat to the life and other vital rights of the civilian  population.  Special reports on these facts will be sent to  international organizations, including the OSCE, the UN and the  Council of Europe. Separate reports will also be sent to special  mechanisms of intergovernmental organizations, "the human rights  defender said in a statement.