>State Department officials have been working with European partners and Russia to try to reopen the Lachin Corridor and end the humanitarian crisis. The plight of residents there has raised growing international concern for the welfare of Nagorno-Karabakh’s 120,000 residents. Luis Moreno Ocampo, a former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, issued a report this week alleging that **“there is a reasonable basis to believe that a genocide is being committed.”**
Incredible that so far the US, France, EU, Russia, UN, ICRC and a litany of other countries, organizations, and experts all agree that Azerbaijan is starving the indigenous Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh through their blockade, and yet every day we have to contend with Azerbaijanis and (some) Turks who come here with their unfathomably cruel comments like “It didn’t happen”, “They deserved it”, “Ermeni propaganda”, “Armenians are doing it to themselves”, etc.
>U.S. officials believe that Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh are managing to survive only because of backyard gardens and other home-produced food. They fear that within two months, as winter approaches, the population could face starvation. Armenians dread a repetition of the Ottoman genocide of 1915, an ever-present historical memory for Armenians around the world.
Truly horrific. There is no question as to why the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh don’t want to live under Azerbaijan’s iron fist.
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>State Department officials have been working with European partners and Russia to try to reopen the Lachin Corridor and end the humanitarian crisis. The plight of residents there has raised growing international concern for the welfare of Nagorno-Karabakh’s 120,000 residents. Luis Moreno Ocampo, a former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, issued a report this week alleging that **“there is a reasonable basis to believe that a genocide is being committed.”**
Incredible that so far the US, France, EU, Russia, UN, ICRC and a litany of other countries, organizations, and experts all agree that Azerbaijan is starving the indigenous Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh through their blockade, and yet every day we have to contend with Azerbaijanis and (some) Turks who come here with their unfathomably cruel comments like “It didn’t happen”, “They deserved it”, “Ermeni propaganda”, “Armenians are doing it to themselves”, etc.
>U.S. officials believe that Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh are managing to survive only because of backyard gardens and other home-produced food. They fear that within two months, as winter approaches, the population could face starvation. Armenians dread a repetition of the Ottoman genocide of 1915, an ever-present historical memory for Armenians around the world.
Truly horrific. There is no question as to why the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh don’t want to live under Azerbaijan’s iron fist.