ICRC: Strong tradition of rescuing war criminals Vigilance of Azerbaijani border guards

As Caliber.Az reported, on July 29, 2023, while trying to leave for Armenia for medical treatment through the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), servicemen of Azerbaijan’s State Border Service detained at the Lachin border checkpoint, a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan, a native of Badara village of Askaran District, Vagif Khachaturyan, born in 1955.

On November 12, 2013, Khachaturyan was put on the international wanted list as a defendant under articles 103 (genocide) and 107 (deportation or forced relocation) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan for participation in crimes against Azerbaijanis - residents of the village of Meshali, Khojaly District in 1991. By a court decision, a measure of restraint in the form of arrest was chosen against him.

At present, the detained Khachaturyan has been placed in a medical institution in Baku, where he will be provided with the necessary medical care and conditions will be created for a visit by ICRC representatives.

By the way, and again about this "humanitarian" organization, with the help of which Khachaturyan intended to hide from Azerbaijani justice in Armenia. The fact that the ICRC is helping and hiding war criminals from justice is not new. Back in May 2011, the British newspaper The Guardian published a controversial article about how the ICRC helped thousands of Nazi criminals and collaborators escape after the Second World War.

For example, Harvard University researcher Gerald Steinacher, after gaining access to thousands of internal documents in the ICRC archives, discovered that many Nazis were able to escape justice thanks to documents issued by the Red Cross. Steinacher published these facts in his book “Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's henchmen escaped justice”.

Steinacher claims that documents show that, thanks to ICRC assistance, 90 per cent of former Nazis escaped through Italy, mainly to Spain, North and South America, particularly Argentina. Red Cross staff issued documents to war criminals "out of sympathy for individuals ... out of political considerations or simply because they were overwhelmed".

Unfortunately, this heinous practice of the ICRC continues to this day already in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. The ICRC staff tried to take out of the country a war criminal on the international wanted list, who had the blood of Azerbaijanis, mercilessly killed because of their nationality, on his hands. But the vigilant Azerbaijani border guards worked clearly and now Khachaturian will face an inevitable trial for his crimes against the civilian population, although postponed due to certain circumstances.