New successes achieved every day in the Patriotic War, waged for liberating the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, prove the strength of our state, people and army to the enemy. Faced with heavy defeats on the battlefield, Armenia can use only such a pitiful, shameless and coward way to react to each new success of our army. The Armenian army has repeatedly targeted the Azerbaijani lands, located far from the battlefield, inhabited by civilians, and having no military facilities. By firing their missiles and shells, the Armenian side performed actions that resulted in massive losses. According to the indicators, from September 27, 2020 to 08:00 on October 30, 2020, more than 27 thousand shells and 218 missiles were fired at more than 182 targeted settlements. By the number of missiles fired, the cities of Goranboy, Fuzuli, Barda and Ganja, and by the number of shells fired - the Tartar and Aghdam regions should be highlighted separately. However, most of all human losses were in Barda, where 27 people died. In Ganja the number of deaths was 26 and in Terter - 17. As a result of Armenia’s shelling by missiles and shells, from September 27 to October 30, 91 civilians were killed, 396 were injured, as well as 2,442 residential buildings, 92 multi-storey residential buildings, and 423 civilian objects were destroyed.

The strikes also inflicted damage on 13 communal infrastructure facilities: 9 water supply facilities, 3 electricity supply facilities, and 1 heat supply facility.

In addition, a special emphasize should be made regarding the damaged religious sites and monuments. Thus, 17 religious sites, including mosques, churches and cemeteries, were damaged. Also, the damages were inflicted on 3 historical monuments located in Ganja, Terter and Aghdam.

By attacking the civilian population, Armenia also violates the Geneva Conventions of 1949. These conventions and the protocols annexed to them establish the right to provide assistance to the civilian population and, in general, to ensure the proper treatment of those protected by humanitarian law.

Targeting the civilian population, which is assessed as a terrorist act, shocked the entire world. Moreover, the realization of these attacks with the use of prohibited weapons doubles the violent actions of the enemy. Thus, Armenians shelled Azerbaijani settlements by using cluster-type missiles, which are prohibited to be used in densely populated areas and civilian settlements. Thus, Armenia grossly violates the requirements of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). Switzerland, as president of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, has expressed concern about reports of the use of cluster weapons in the Karabakh conflict. With regard to any conflict, Switzerland calls on the parties to respect international humanitarian law and not to use cluster munitions. The Swiss Government regrets that these munitions are still in use, even though 10 years have passed since Convention on Cluster Munitions entered into force.

In their reports, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International also confirmed Armenia's attacks on Azerbaijani civilians and infrastructure using banned cluster bombs. After that, in accordance with the requirements of the international convention, preventive measures must be taken against Armenia's activities for the use, development, production, acquisition, assembly, and storage of cluster bombs.

Despite that these terrifying events shocked the whole world, our people continue to morally support the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and our army with greater determination and courage, without losing their fighting spirit, unity and will. Our brave army takes revenge for the death of our peaceful compatriots on the battlefield. At the same time, for its criminal and terrorist actions against humanity Armenia will have to be held responsible in accordance with the international law. According to the norms of international law, damage inflicted, in violation of its obligations, by a subject of international law to another subject of the same level is assessed as legal responsibility and provides for punishment in several instances. The UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court regulates these issues. The events that have taken place since September 27 make it possible to prosecute Armenia under five of the six categories of the UN Compensation Commission. In these procedures, the party receiving compensation may be injured persons, close family relatives of deceased people, owners of facilities that have suffered damage. At the same time, the state may act for damage to state facilities, and the state and international organizations may act for damage caused to the environment.

Historically, in world practice, a party that suffered from war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as terrorist events demanded reparations (recovering the damage by various means) or compensation from the opposing party.

Representatives of the foreign diplomatic corps, members of international organizations in our country and persons implementing humanitarian projects are closely following all the events. Volunteers of the Red Crescent Society in Azerbaijan are also among the dead and injured. Martin Schuepp, Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the Eurasian Region, noted in his statement that the Committee representatives also witnessed intensive shelling of settlements in Azerbaijan, which resulted in deaths, injuries, and destructions.

By expanding the scale of terrorist acts committed thoughtlessly, Armenia has demonstrated to the whole world the extent of anti-humanistic military policy it is pursuing. This testifies that for holding Armenia responsible in accordance with international legal norms, they gained opponent witnesses from all over the world.