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    Emil Lazarian
  • 1 year ago
    • Categories: 2023

U.S. Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission to hold hearing on blockade of Lachin Corridor

 10:59, 1 September 2023

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. The United States Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will hold a on September 6 on the ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor. This will be the second on Nagorno-Karabakh this year at the commission.

Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, released his personal Expert Opinion on August 7, stating that “there is a reasonable basis to believe that a Genocide is being committed against Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023” and emphasizing that under the Genocide Conventions all states have a “duty to prevent” genocide. At the Mr. Ocampo will present his Expert Opinion on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission said in a press release.

David L. Phillips, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, and Director of Columbia University’s Artsakh Atrocities Project, will testify on facts relevant to gathering the intent of the government of Azerbaijan, including as available on the web page “Atrocities Artsakh.”

This will be open to Members of Congress, congressional staff, the interested public, and the media. The will be livestreamed via the Commission website.

The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a  on June 21 on Safeguarding the People of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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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