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Samvel Chakhramanian: “I ask France to put pressure on Azerbaijan to release Armenian political prisoners”

2024-03-27T12:16:21.650Z

Highlights: Samvel Chakhramanian: “I ask France to put pressure on Azerbaijan to release Armenian political prisoners” “There are 10 or 11 Armenians remaining throughout the territory of the former Republic of Artsakh. These are disabled or sick people, who cannot move around or who wish to stay near the graves of their loved ones” Eight former Artsakh leaders are imprisoned in Baku. Seven other Armenians, who are soldiers captured in September 2023, are also detained.


INTERVIEW - Six months after the attack on Azerbaijan which resulted in the forced departure of almost all of its Armenian inhabitants, the president of the government in exile of Nagorno-Karabakh confides in Le Figaro.


Comments collected in Yerevan

LE FIGARO - Before “the 44-day war” in the fall of 2020, Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) had 150,000 Armenian inhabitants.

How many remain after its total conquest by Azerbaijan last September?

SAMVEL CHAKHRAMANIAN -

According to our information, today there are 10 or 11 Armenians remaining throughout the territory of the former Republic of Artsakh.

These are disabled or sick people, who cannot move around or who wish to stay near the graves of their loved ones.

After the forced exodus of September 2023, their number was greater, but since then, several dozen Artsakhiotes who had decided to stay there have also preferred to go into exile in Armenia thanks to the Red Cross.

Have you heard from Armenians imprisoned in Azerbaijan since September 2023?

Eight former Artsakh leaders are imprisoned in Baku.

Seven other Armenians, who are soldiers captured in September 2023, are also detained…

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Source: lefigaro

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