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Day: September 21, 2023
What is happening in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) is a real tragedy. Arman Tatoyan, director of the Tatoyan Foundation Center for Law and Justice, and the former Human Rights Defender (ombudsman) of Armenia, noted about this on Facebook. Tatoyan added as follows:
“Tens of thousands of civilians are forced to displacement from their homes and communities after nearly 9 months of blockade and being forced to starvation.
“People are lost, they can’t find their children, parents, relatives, they don’t know if they are alive or killed by Azerbaijani soldiers. Connections between cities and villages are cut off, roads are under Azerbaijani blockade.
“The population of Artsakh, being exhausted, deprived of all property, houses, having no connection, electricity, gas, is forced to spend days and nights in the streets and basements under fire.
“Azerbaijani armed servicemen also killed and injured women, children and the elderly. The shootings have not stopped in Stepanakert since early this morning.
“All these after 9 months of blockade cannot be described in any other way than genocide of 120,000 ethnic Armenians. This is the intended policy of the Azerbaijani authorities; this are criminal acts of a single chain.”
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Windows of a government building that were broken during a protest following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, on Sept. 20.IRAKLI GEDENIDZE/Reuters
Armenia needs to be “free of conflict” for the sake of its independence, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told his compatriots on Thursday, after their ethnic kin in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region surrendered this week to Azerbaijan.
The fall of Karabakh, a region that the ethnic Armenian separatists had controlled for three decades with Yerevan’s support, has stoked calls in Armenia for Pashinyan’s resignation.
“Today we are living in difficult times, suffering untold physical and psychological suffering,” Pashinyan said in a televised address marking Armenia’s national independence day in which he made no direct reference to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia has benefited from democracy, the rule of law and a principled anti-corruption policy, but it also needs peace, Pashinyan said.
“Peace is a factor that ensures and guarantees security as well as independence and sovereignty,” he said.
“(Armenia) must take this path for the sake of independence, for the sake of statehood, for the sake of the future”, he added.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Wednesday he valued the fact that Armenia – which had few options – had not tried to interfere in Baku’s lightning offensive. Aliyev said this would remove an obstacle to wider peace negotiations between the two Caucasus neighbours.
Pashinyan in 2020 presided over a war in which a newly confident and better-armed Azerbaijan seized control of swathes of territory previously controlled by the separatists, laying the groundwork for this week’s capture of the entire region.
Pashinyan nonetheless won re-election in Armenia a few months later.
Windows of a government building that were broken during a protest following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, on Sept. 20.IRAKLI GEDENIDZE/Reuters
Armenia needs to be “free of conflict” for the sake of its independence, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told his compatriots on Thursday, after their ethnic kin in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region surrendered this week to Azerbaijan.
The fall of Karabakh, a region that the ethnic Armenian separatists had controlled for three decades with Yerevan’s support, has stoked calls in Armenia for Pashinyan’s resignation.
“Today we are living in difficult times, suffering untold physical and psychological suffering,” Pashinyan said in a televised address marking Armenia’s national independence day in which he made no direct reference to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia has benefited from democracy, the rule of law and a principled anti-corruption policy, but it also needs peace, Pashinyan said.
“Peace is a factor that ensures and guarantees security as well as independence and sovereignty,” he said.
“(Armenia) must take this path for the sake of independence, for the sake of statehood, for the sake of the future”, he added.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Wednesday he valued the fact that Armenia – which had few options – had not tried to interfere in Baku’s lightning offensive. Aliyev said this would remove an obstacle to wider peace negotiations between the two Caucasus neighbours.
Pashinyan in 2020 presided over a war in which a newly confident and better-armed Azerbaijan seized control of swathes of territory previously controlled by the separatists, laying the groundwork for this week’s capture of the entire region.
Pashinyan nonetheless won re-election in Armenia a few months later.
