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Offences committed during the conflict be-
tween Armenia and Azerbaijan entail both state
and individual criminal responsibility under in-
ternational law.
Thus, due to its initial and continuing aggres-
sion againstAzerbaijan and persisting occupation
of that state’s territory, the Republic of Armenia
bears full international responsibility for breach-
es of international law. Such responsibility, aris-
ing from Armenia’s internationally wrongful
acts, involves legal consequences manifested in
an obligation to cease such acts, to offer appro-
priate assurances and guarantees that they will
not recur and to provide full reparation for injury
in the form of restitution, compensation and sat-
isfaction, either singly or in combination.
Alongside the Republic of Armenia’s re-
sponsibility as a state for internationally wrong-
ful acts, under the customary and treaty norms
of international criminal law, certain acts perpe-
trated in the context of an armed conflict, includ-
ing those in the town of Khojaly, are viewed as
international criminal offences and individual
responsibility for them is borne by those who
participated in the acts, their accomplices and
accessories. It is well known that both the cur-
rent and former presidents of Armenia, Serzh
Sargsyan and Robert Kocharian, together with
many other high-ranking political and military
officials of that state, as well as leaders of the
separatist regime established by Armenia in the
occupied territories of Azerbaijan, participated
personally in seizing Azerbaijani lands and in
the actions taken against Azerbaijani civilians
and armed forces. It is clear that, given the scale
and gravity of the offences that they committed,
criminal prosecution of those persons would be
an inevitable consequence.
RESPONSIBILITY UNDER
INTERNATIONAL LAW