Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan promises rights, criminally blocking even humanitarian access; RA HR

The human rights defender stated the blocking of humanitarian flights to Artsakh by Azerbaijan, which states explicitly:

"It's been over a week since the humanitarian transports to Nagorno-Karabakh, carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross and Russian peacekeepers during the blockade, have been completely stopped. Blocking the transportation of humanitarian goods to Artsakh deepens the humanitarian crisis created in Artsakh due to the six-month embargo. The already tight food and medicine situation severely threats our population ontologically.

Azerbaijan has always advertised humanitarian transport during the blockade to show that the corridor is not blocked, turning humanitarian issues into a tool. In international inaction, Azerbaijan acts in complete impunity, ignoring the tripartite statement of 2020, the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice of the United Nations.

Azerbaijan promises rights, criminally blocking even humanitarian access. Some international actors unthinkingly believe in those promises, deliberately not seeing what Azerbaijan is doing. How much can realistically be ignored?

Azerbaijan offers ethnic cleansing and forced subjugation; in both cases, we are dealing with the same crime, which grossly violates the stupid human rights: human self-determination, the right to self-expression, life, and living in one's homeland without discrimination.

Does this situation indicate that all international actors do not commit to confronting Azerbaijan with urgent methods? Do you normalize the genocidal policy conducted by Azerbaijan? In the 21st century, in front of all of you, 120,000 people are subjected to inhuman suffering daily, and what you have done is just an episodic statement of concern.

Intentional obstruction of humanitarian access is considered a war crime in international law. I call on you again to end this criminal indifference, prevent a new war crime by Azerbaijan, and understand that the responsibility for the civilian population of Nagorno-Karabakh is also on your conscience. After all, indifference and inaction are tantamount to complicity."