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YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, ARMENPRESS. Human rights advocate, lawyer Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab has reacted to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh after a former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court warned that Azerbaijan’s blockade of Lachin Corridor constitutes genocide.

Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab is a programme lawyer with the IBA's Human Rights Institute and co-founder of the Coalition for Genocide Response. Dr Ochab works on the topic of genocide, with specific focus on the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities around the world.

In an article titled ‘Lachin Corridor Blockade Starves Nagorno-Karabakh’ the lawyer said that the reports of the ‘dire situation in Nagorno-Karabakh must be taken seriously at last and acted upon.’

“As Nagorno-Karabakh is being starved, the international community cannot continue looking away as it has done for the last eight months. The people of Nagorno-Karabakh require urgent assistance without any further excuses,” she added, noting the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo’s expert opinion which determined that Azerbaijan is committing genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Ochab cited the August 7, 2023 statement by a group of United Nations experts who raised the alarming situation in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of the ongoing blockade of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan.