Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan, in a Facebook post today, has called for the removal of Azerbaijani troops from Armenian roads and villages, calling their presence a gross human rights violation.

Last week, Azerbaijani troops set up customs checkpoints along a 21-kilometer section of the road linking Kapan and Goris. Today, Azerbaijani troops set up border and customs checkpoints along the Kapan-Chakaten section of the roadway.

"Near our villages and on the roads are the same Azerbaijani services that tortured and killed our servicemen and civilians during the war and were not punished for that. This threat has not disappeared,” Tatoyan wrote.

Armenia’s National Security Service, last night, announced that Armenia will also set up checkpoints along the Kapan-Chakaten section. It said that an alternative road for this section will be ready before the end of the year.

“The priority of all, each in their own way, of us is to remove the Azerbaijani armed forces and all other servicemen from our villages and roads, and we have the grounds for that. This mostly refers to the Azerbaijani invasions in our country. They must also be punished for their crimes. Everything else is secondary,” Tatoyan wrote.