394:(ECHR) registered complaints applied by the families of 3 beheaded Armenian soldiers, including Kyaram Sloyan. They applied to the ECHR to recognize violations against them through inhuman treatment, disrespect of the private lives of the victims, as well as national discrimination. According to the leader of "Sinjar" Yezidi Union Boris Muraz, publications, photographs, as well as "a shocking video, which shows how one of the Azerbaijani villages gathered to demonstrate the severed head of Sloyan" are attached to the lawsuit.
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Azerbaijani military started attacking
Armenian military positions on 1 and 2 April, which resulted in casualties on both sides. Sloyan was one of the casualties. During the attack, his unit commander Armenak Urfanyan ordered the men of his unit to withdraw upon seeing the numerical superiority of
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Farmanyan stated that numerous photos in social networks are a "real evidence of cruel treatment of Azerbaijani soldiers posing with the head of Kyaram Sloyan as a trophy". According to Farmanyan, "later the head was transferred to local Azerbaijani population demonstrating it as a trophy
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Abdulmejid Akhundov, an Azerbaijani army conscript, and that he was later killed as the clashes continued, and his body was one of those returned by Armenia to Azerbaijan in the exchange
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Azerbaijani serviceman who was depicted on another photo where the mutilated head of Sloyan was manifestly shown. According to Kocharyan, “the encouragement of such a crime at the highest state level isn’t something new for Azerbaijan:
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Azerbaijani forces. Sloyan however refused and both of them were killed by Azerbaijani soldiers. His body was afterwards mutilated and beheaded. Images of Azerbaijani soldiers holding his severed head were posted on the social-networking site
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encouraging hatred and aggression towards
Armenians. No action by official Baku has followed to punish the guilty. By doing so Azerbaijan once more violated numerous international treaties".
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The story of a hero – Kyaram Sloyan, Public TV of Armenia
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along with 100 other Armenian Yazidis at the age of 18.
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