Azerbaijan's presidential aide urges ICC investigation into Armenia's 2020 attack on Ganja 4 years on

Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev has said that Armenia, as a member of the International Criminal Court, should investigate the missile strikes on Ganja in 2020.

He made the remarks in a post on his X account, according to Caliber.Az.

“On 17 October 2020, the second deadliest ballistic missile strike on Ganja was carried out. Armenia's killing of civilians with a ballistic missile was not a random act or collateral damage, but a deliberate policy of terror and murder. As a member of the ICC, Armenia must investigate these war crimes,” he noted.

To recap, today, October 17, marks four years since the fifth missile attack by the Armenian Armed Forces on the Azerbaijani city of Ganja during the Second Karabakh War.

Throughout the conflict, Ganja endured a total of five missile and heavy artillery attacks (October 4, 5, 8, 11, 17), which claimed 26 lives, including 10 men, 10 women and six children. The attacks injured 175 people, 61 men, 66 women, and 48 children and caused severe damage to civilian infrastructure and vehicles.

Notably, the former so-called “president” of the Karabakh separatists, Arayik Harutyunyan, who was accused of orchestrating terrorist attacks on Ganja's civilian population during the Second Karabakh War, has been detained by the Azerbaijani State Security Service and transferred to Baku. 

By Khagan Isayev