hetq.am: The trial of 13 Armenian POWs, who are accused of terrorist acts and other crimes, continues in Baku, Apa agency reports. The accused are Haykaz Hovhannisyan, Varazdat Manukyan, Davit Stepanyan, Lon Tosunyan, Arthur Baghdasaryan, Serob Avagyan, Varazdat Harutyunyan, Zhora Manukyan, Hrayr Herabyan, Narek Gasparyan, Grigor Kyureghyan, Ashot Gorgramyan, and Martin Aghramanyan.

At the July 2 sitting, the Armenian POWs gave testimonies. Zhora Manukyan stated that in November of the last year he received a notice from the military commissariat. 

"I went to the military commissariat, where they gave me a weapon and 120 bullets. We were told that we must protect the Armenian border. We left by bus and got somewhere at night. In the morning we learned that we were in Lachin (ed. Berdzor). Then we passed the peacekeepers. Our commander was Arsen Ghazaryan. He said that he would come and take us from there after some time. On December 13, they ordered us to go down. When we went down, we were arrested by the Azerbaijani soldiers. We surrendered, giving our weapons," Zhora Manukyan said.

Davit Stepanyan gave the same testimony. Answering the prosecutor's questions, he noted that they arrived in Berdzor on November 27. Arthur Baghdasaryan, one of the POWs, stated that he did not know about the clauses of the November 9 announcement. Some of the POWs stated that they had been in the direction of Jabrayil during the war and later returned to Armenia.