>“Small rooms filled with the sound of crying and screaming,” said one torture survivor, interviewed for a 2021 documentary on BBC Azerbaijani, describing the scenes he remembered. “Blood everywhere. Like a butcher shop. You would slip on blood. They pointed to a corpse on the floor – even in a car accident you don’t end up in that bad shape – and asked me to choose: admit to being a spy, give a name, or wait for the fate of the man on the floor.”
>In an interview with local media, another former soldier who was accused of espionage reported that he was forced to urinate on his father, an officer at the time. Yet another detained former officer said he had seen soldiers forced to have sex with one another.
This is one of the most deplorable things I’ve read. If a nation can do this to their own people, imagine what it can do to others.
I’m sort of surprised to even see that Azerbaijan has a functioning and open enough of a legal system that this court case and massive scandal involving their army has been able to progress as much as it has.
Nations that pride themselves on marching in parades in the most strangest and uncomfortable ways should always be misstrusted.
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>“Small rooms filled with the sound of crying and screaming,” said one torture survivor, interviewed for a 2021 documentary on BBC Azerbaijani, describing the scenes he remembered. “Blood everywhere. Like a butcher shop. You would slip on blood. They pointed to a corpse on the floor – even in a car accident you don’t end up in that bad shape – and asked me to choose: admit to being a spy, give a name, or wait for the fate of the man on the floor.”
>In an interview with local media, another former soldier who was accused of espionage reported that he was forced to urinate on his father, an officer at the time. Yet another detained former officer said he had seen soldiers forced to have sex with one another.
This is one of the most deplorable things I’ve read. If a nation can do this to their own people, imagine what it can do to others.
I’m sort of surprised to even see that Azerbaijan has a functioning and open enough of a legal system that this court case and massive scandal involving their army has been able to progress as much as it has.
Nations that pride themselves on marching in parades in the most strangest and uncomfortable ways should always be misstrusted.
Azeris are truly barbarians.
Notorious torture case