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December 10, 2020
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Armenia: Unlawful Rocket, Missile Strikes on Azerbaijan
A resident of Ayrija village holds a fragment of the munition that killed a 16-year-old boy, Shahmaly Rahimov, on November 7, 2020. © 2020 Bill Van Esveld / Human Rights Watch
A photograph of Arthur Guliyev, 13, hangs on the wall of his former home in Ganja. He died from his wounds a week after a ballistic missile hit the neighborhood on October 17. © 2020 Bill Van Esveld / Human Rights Watch
Shaira Guliyeva, 47, stands in front of her destroyed home and shows a photograph of her nephew, Arthur Guliyev, 13, who was killed there by a ballistic missile attack on October 17. © 2020 Tanya Lokshina / Human Rights Watch
Armenian forces fired a Scud-B ballistic missile that hit the Mukhtar Hajiev neighborhood in Ganja at 1 a.m. on October 17, killing and maiming residents and destroying and damaging dozens of homes. © 2020 Bill Van Esveld / Human Rights Watch
An artillery attack on September 27 killed five members of the Gurbanov family, ages 13 to 69, at a family home in Gashalti. © 2020 Bill Van Esveld / Human Rights Watch
A rocket artillery attack on October 7 destroyed or severely damaged 10 houses in a neighborhood in Horadiz city. © 2020 Tanya Lokshina / Human Rights Watch
Nuray, 8, holds a fragment from a rocket artillery attack that destroyed her home and nine other homes in a residential neighborhood in Horadiz on October 7. © 2020 Bill Van Esveld / Human Rights Watch
A member of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action looks at the crater of a Scud-B ballistic missile that hit on October 5, in a field near Babi village, Fizuli district. © 2020 Bill Van Esveld / Human Rights Watch
An Armenian attack killed four members of a funeral party and wounded four others, all civilians, at the Tartar city cemetery on October 10. © 2020 Bill Van Esveld / Human Rights Watch
Fragments and remnants of munitions that hit Gumush Garayeva’s home in Topgaragoyunlu, a village near the front lines, in October. Garayeva was wounded in an artillery attack on October 4. © 2020 Tanya Lokshina / Human Rights Watch
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