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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
    • Categories: 2022

Armenia`s Human Rights Defender calls on international human rights organizations to stop Azerbaijan`s genocidal policy toward Artsakh

ARMINFO
Armenia –
Marianna Mkrtchyan

ArmInfo. Human Rights Defender of Armenia Kristinne Grigoryan made the following statement. 

Today's infiltration of Azerbaijani military forces into the village  of Pharukh of Askeran region of the Republic of Artsakh is the  logical continuation of criminal policy of Azerbaijan.

In breach of all well-known norms of international law this behavior  continues weeks and months – through the various acts of  intimidation, terrorization and creation of unbearable conditions for  normal life of people of Artsakh. This penetration is yet another  proof of the fact that the weeks-long targeting of the population of  Khramort village didn't bring the desired result – people didn't  leave their homeland, so Azerbaijan applied to its well-proven  behavior which is the provocation.

It is a shameful fact that the ethnic cleansing policy of Artsakh is  the state priority of Azerbaijan which undermines the fulfillment of  the obligations of international law and infringes the signatures of  that country put under its legally binding commitments.

The "uncomfortable" silence of international community about voicing  out the human rights violations is not being remedied by real actions  to address the situation. Meanwhile the people of Artsakh have same  rights as humans in any other part of the world.

I strongly condemn criminal behavior of Azerbaijan and call to  international human rights organizations and actors to ACT to STOP  this genocidal policy towards people of Artsakh.  

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS