Editing Decapitation (section)

==== Azerbaijan ====
During the [[2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes]], Yazidi-Armenian serviceman [[Kyaram Sloyan]] was decapitated by Azerbaijani servicemen.<ref name="Azatutyun">{{cite news |date=11 April 2016 |title=Armenian Soldier Reburied |agency=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] Armenian Service |url=http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/27665737.html |access-date=6 July 2022 |archive-date=14 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414020202/http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/27665737.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="suntimes">{{cite news |last1=Beliakov |first1=Dmitry |last2=Franchetti |first2=Mark |date=10 April 2016 |title=Former Russian states on brink of renewing war |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1686450.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2016_04_09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419152207/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1686450.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2016_04_09 |archive-date=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kerkonian |first=Karnig |date=2016-05-19 |title=Illinois voters support Senator Kirk's call for pro-peace measures in Nagorno-Karabakh |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/280472-illinois-voters-support-senator-kirks-call-for-pro-peace/ |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=The Hill |language=en-US |archive-date=6 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706212830/https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/280472-illinois-voters-support-senator-kirks-call-for-pro-peace/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Several reports of decapitation, along with other types of mutilation of Armenian POWs by Azerbaijani soldiers, emerged in 2020 during the [[Second Nagorno-Karabakh War]].<ref name="ArmenianPOWs">{{cite web |date=2 December 2020 |title=Azerbaijan: Armenian Prisoners of War Badly Mistreated |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/02/azerbaijan-armenian-prisoners-war-badly-mistreated |access-date=9 December 2020 |work=[[Human Rights Watch]] |archive-date=23 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223105015/https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/02/azerbaijan-armenian-prisoners-war-badly-mistreated |url-status=live }}</ref>