Inexorable law of karma for Khojaly massacre perpetrators Let the justice prevail

"No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten." This phrase, familiar to everyone since Soviet times, not only pledges that the memory of the Soviet soldiers who selflessly fought in the Second World War will be eternal but also warns all those who came with a sword to a foreign land that their atrocities will not go unpunished.

Born in 1955 in the village of Badar near Askeran, Vagif Cherkezovich Khachaturyan, experienced the consequences of his betrayal of his actual homeland, Azerbaijan, and the hatred towards Azerbaijanis and everything Azerbaijani that emerged out of nowhere.

As is well known, Baku has accumulated a solid evidence base for the trial of those who during the First Karabakh War and the long-term occupation of Azerbaijani territories expelled, and often killed and maimed the indigenous population of this land - Azerbaijanis. Evidence of Khachaturyan's atrocities against his own fellow villagers and residents of neighbouring villages is also abundant. The investigation knows that on December 21, 1991, this monster together with other scumbags of Armenian nationality shot the inhabitants of Meshali village with automatic rifles and crushed them with infantry fighting vehicles. On that day, 25 Azerbaijanis lost their lives, 14 people were maimed, and 358 villagers were forcibly expelled from their homes.

But the time came and Khachaturyan was detained by Azerbaijani border guards. Eyewitnesses from Meshali and other villages who miraculously survived his atrocities testify against him.

The investigation into Khachaturyan's case is still ongoing. As it turned out, during the war he was also the driver of Samvel Babayan, the "commander" of the Karabakh separatist gangs. So he will surely be able to tell a lot about Babayan himself, as well as about other Karabakh separatists, whose hands are stained with the blood of civilians. Additional details and evidence are not superfluous when it comes to such people.

The story of Khachaturyan's arrest is also indicative of the fact that other villains, still at large, who are planning to destroy the Azerbaijani people, felt that things getting hot for them. The same Samvel Babayan, in an interview with an Armenian blogger, while taking the question of who else is on the list of Karabakh war criminals, whom the Azerbaijani law enforcement agencies intend to arrest and try for atrocities committed against civilians during the First Karabakh War, said with obvious fear: "I am also on this list".

Indeed, this man, who only graduated from secondary school in Khankendi but never entered university, has always been hungry for power. That is why, in fact, he saw the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict as a career ladder for his essentially worthless persona. As a result, Babayan became one of the leaders of the bandit group in Karabakh.

It should also be recalled that in June 1991 Samvel Babayan was arrested and spent six months in Baku prison. Then he was released, as it turned out, in vain: Babayan immediately found himself on the other side of the front and started to exterminate Azerbaijanis with maniac zeal. He also took part in the occupation of Shusha. In short, no special grounds for his detention by Azerbaijani law enforcement agencies are required.

Babayan himself is aware that there should be no crime without punishment, but he does not lose hope, however tiny, for leniency. This is probably why he has been very active in the media, calling to accept the Azerbaijani government's proposal to deliver food cargo along the Aghdam road and even met with his supporters and representatives of the separatists' top brass to allegedly convince them of this. This was reported by the Armenian newspaper "Hraparak".

"It is necessary to start bilateral trade both from the side of Aghdam and Goris (Gorus - ed.), it will happen whether we want it or not. Those who landed in Karabakh in a balloon think that they can change something by demonstration, but in the world, probably 200,000 people die of hunger every day, and the international community does not pay attention to it," Babayan said. And quite objectively he noted that for the world community, all the so-called "protests" of the Armenian side mean nothing, Türkiye will stand behind Azerbaijan and they will continue to go their own way.

"Why not tell people the truth: when you lose a war, you have to accept the rules of the game and try to recover," said the suddenly enlightened Babayan.

It only remains to add that after the end of any war, the process of identifying and bringing to criminal responsibility those who were guilty of crimes committed while the hostilities were going on begins. And Babayan understands that it will be difficult for him to avoid a fair trial. As well as other criminals - Araik Harutyunyan, Arkady Ghukasyan, Seyran Ohanyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Bako Sahakyan, and Robert Kocharyan (the list can be continued), who are also probably haunted by terrible thoughts of retribution. All of them are on the list of those who committed heinous crimes against Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani people.