Armenian colonel who boasted of mining Azerbaijani territories put on the wanted list

Baku/18.06.21/Turan: The General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan filed a lawsuit against Colonel of the Armenian Armed Forces Koryan Gumashyan, who announced the mining of the territories of the Kelbajar and Lachin regions. Gumashyan has been put on the wanted list.

A number of media and social networks published an interview given on June 6, 2021 by Colonel of the Armed Forces of Armenia Koryun Gumashyan to the “Noyan Tapan” agency in Yerevan and to Armenian television. In an interview, he admitted that about 500-600 hectares of land in the Kelbajar and Lachin regions were mined by burying anti-tank and anti-personnel mines delivered to 17 trucks, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.

The investigation carried out by the General Prosecutor's Office,  suspected that the director of the military school named after Tigran Mets, retired colonel of the Armenian Armed Forces Koryun Gumashyan, entered into a criminal conspiracy with other persons whose identity is being established. They carried out provocative actions and mass murders of Azerbaijani citizens using 17 trucks have placed anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in the Lachin and Kelbajar regions. The absence of an official refutation of Gumashian's statements regarding the burying of mines by the military-political leadership of Armenia indicates the existence of these facts.

The reliability of the above is confirmed by the recent facts of death and injury of Azerbaijani citizens who were blown up by anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in the liberated Lachin and Kelbajar regions.

In connection with the above, the Military Prosecutor's Office of Ganja has initiated a criminal case.

Gumashyan was prosecuted under Articles 120.2.1 (premeditated murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy), 120.2.7 (murder of two or more persons), 120.2.12 (motivated by national, racial, religious hatred or enmity) and others articles of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. In relation to him, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of arrest and he was put on the international wanted list, according to a press release from the Prosecutor General's Office. --06D-