Today, Azerbaijan twice fired rockets at the Artsakh city of Hadrut with the Smerch volley fire system. The civilian population was injured as a result of the rocket fire with cluster munitions warheads. This is evidenced by all the official media publications, as well as the information received from the civilian population of Artsakh and separate calls to the Human Rights Defender.
The day before, the Artsakh Human Rights Defender announced the intensive use of cluster munitions warheads missiles as a result of fact-finding work.
Attacks with cluster munitions are an inadmissible military aggression against the civilian population of Artsakh.
Both the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions clearly limit the right to choose the methods and means of warfare by not allowing the use of such dangerous weapons. International legal instruments and customary international humanitarian law prohibit the use of cluster munitions as inhuman. These weapons have an indiscriminate effect, endangering the lives and health of civilians, causing additional damage and suffering.
The Human Rights Defender appeals to the interested international organizations, to all international human rights organizations to respond, to make clear, unequivocal calls for an end to such aggressive and inhumane behavior by the Azerbaijani side.
The use of such weapons already crosses all red lines and can lead to unpredictable consequences. The use of cluster munitions weapons is not only unacceptable in terms of immediate damage, but also seriously dangerous for the health of future generations.
