Victim: In Kalbajar, Armenian army servicemen buried 23 people alive before my eyes

At the continued court hearing today in the Baku Military Court against Armenians accused of war crimes, victim Zabil Safarov, who was taken hostage during the occupation of the Kalbajar district, testified.

As BAKU.WS reports with reference to Report, Safarov stated in his testimony that on April 4, 1993, the armed forces of Armenia entered Kalbajar and surrounded them.

"When the Armenians put me in a tank and were taking me away, my grandmother begged them not to separate me from her. But they killed my grandmother for saying 'someday our army will return these lands.' After killing my grandmother, they brought me to the village of Veng in Kalbajar district. There they tortured us, and then brought us to the district," he said.

The victim recounted that servicemen of the Armenian armed forces insulted underage hostages, women, girls, tortured everyone, sparing neither the elderly nor children, and killed them.

"The Armenians heated a skewer and burned our soldier with it. They also cut off the ear of one of them.

When I was in prison in Shusha, I witnessed how they burned crosses on the body of an Azerbaijani. I saw how Armenians beat and killed several Azerbaijanis.

They also buried 23 people alive before my eyes, leaving only their heads above the surface.

Some could not endure the torture by Armenians and killed themselves.

Servicemen of the Armenian army looted our cemeteries, dug up graves, robbed and desecrated them.

Because of the torture I endured, I have poor hearing in my right ear, my vision has weakened. They broke my teeth," Safarov emphasized.