Experts have warned the U.S. Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission that the U.S. government must be careful to avoid becoming complicit in ongoing “genocide” against 120,000 Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The commission recently held a hearing about a blockade of the Lachin Corridor, which connects Armenians to Artsakhk, a self-declared Armenian state with a predominantly Christian population, the Armen Press reports.
Azerbaijan blocked off the Lachin Corridor in December 2022. Previously, the surrounding areas had been under Armenian control until 2020.
Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has said that “there is a reasonable basis to believe that a Genocide is being committed against Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023.”
Experts say the closing of the corridor means the 120,000 Armenians do not have access to food and medicine.
“The Biden Administration must say immediately that this is genocide—and put a stop…
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