Monday, October 27 2014

During a court trial in Stepanakert on Monday Azeri raider Shahbaz Guliyev gave some details of the murder of Armenian youth from Nagorno-Karabakh's Shahumyan district Smbat Tsakanyan.

Though speaking bad Russian, Guliyev gave a detailed picture of their raid. He said that he and his comrades Dilham Askerov and Hasan Hasanov walked the area, spending nights near rivers and eating fruit.  Tsakanyan was with them for three days (July 4-7). 

One day Askerov said that the boy had to be killed. Guliyev did not see how the boy was kidnapped nor did he see how he was killed. He just heard a shot. When he turned, he saw that the boy was lying on the road. He does not know who shot him down. Askerov and Hasanov were quarreling about something. 

When the three reached Karvachar, Askerov went there with a camera but was noticed. Guliyev and Hasanov tried to cover up tracks. When they came across a boy with a dog, they told him that they were from Georgia. The boy's father invited them to his house for a cup of tea.  They were inside the house when two men came in. One of them knocked him out.  According to Nagorno-Karabakh's Police, on 29 June 2014, Shahbaz Jalal oghli Guliyev, Dilham Gardashkhan oghli Askerov and Hasan Hasanov illegally penetrated into the territory of NKR having with then arms and ammunition and attempted a sabotage attack. They were spying and even kidnapped minor Smbat Tsakanayn, a citizen of NKR on 4 July, who was later found with deadly wounds to the head.  Afterwards, on 11 July, on the Vardenis-Karvachar road, Hasanov murdered a resident of Yerevan Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971) and wounded Karine Davtyan, a resident of Dzoraghbyur village on the grounds of national hatred.  He was rendered harmless after showing armed resistance to the Armenian forces. The other two raiders were arrested.   

Shahbaz Guliyev, 46, and Dilham Askerov, 54, were charged under the NKR Criminal Code's Article 316 (spying), Article 350 part 2 (violation of the NKR's border by an organized group), Article 245 part 3 (illegal carrying of arms and ammunition), Article 129 part 3 point 1 (kidnapping, actions against a minor with the use of arms), Article 103 part 2 points 3,7,14 (murder combined with kidnapping by an organized group out of ethnic hatred) and Articles 33 and 103 part 1 point 14 (attempted murder of two or more people by an organized group out of ethnic hatred).