The research site Bellingcat referred to the atrocities committed by the Azerbaijanis against the Armenian captives, posting a video. The
article is titled: An Execution in Hadrut.
Below is an excerpt from the publication:
"Despite a recent Russian-mediated ceasefire, fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces still rages in Nagorno-Karabakh. The fighting, which began on September 27, has since escalated into a full-scale war. It is the most serious, and the most deadly, spate of violence since the 1988-1994 war, which resulted in Karabakh Armenian control of this South Caucasus territory.
The Azerbaijani military has launched attacks across the front line, with particular focus on flat terrain in the South of Nagorno-Karabakh. One town in this area is Hadrut, which is now connected with one of the most disturbing pieces of footage to have emerged from the conflict so far.
On October 15, two videos began circulating on Azerbaijani Telegram channels. We examined them and identified that the first shows the apparent capture of two Armenians by Azerbaijani soldiers. The second video showed the summary execution of what appeared to be the same two men.
In videos, we see two men being detained by several soldiers. One of the men is elderly and has difficulty moving across the rough ground. Both are dressed in camouflage and neither are armed. At the beginning of the video, the younger man takes off his helmet and body armour.
This video appears to have been initially posted by Azerbaijani Telegram channels alongside a description stating that the two men were captured Armenian soldiers.
Many of these posts were later deleted or replaced with claims from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence that the videos were fake. For example The Tagiev, a popular Azerbaijani Telegram channel, deleted the post below and instead claimed the videos were staged because the detainees “fell too neatly”.
