2023-08-09 00:02:52
The crisis that keeps the 120,000 Armenian inhabitants of the territory militarily isolated constitutes a genocide through starvation, says a report.
The crisis that keeps the 120 thousand Armenian inhabitants of the territory of Nagorno Karabakh militarily isolated, constitutes genocide “through starvation” holds a report. The study with an alarming tone compares the serious episode with those suffered by Jews and Poles in 1939, Russians in present-day Saint Petersburg in 1941 and Cambodians in 1975/75.
The report was prepared by Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo, First Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and former assistant prosecutor of the Juntas Trial in 1985 and now faculty at Harvard and Yale.
The jurist acted at the request of the government of that region involved in a conflict with Azerbaijan, a country that claims total sovereignty over that territory.
According to the 28-page complaint, the Azeri regime, which has already taken part of that space militarily, closed the so-called Lachin Corridor which is the only one through which it is possible to send food and medicine to the population, mostly Armenians.
Armenians demonstrate in front of the government building in the center of Yerevan. AFP photo
The corridor
The report maintains that “in analyzing the Srebrenica case, the International Court of Justice ruled that the “deprivation of food, medical care, housing or clothing” constitutes genocide within Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention. It refers to the massacre of some 8,000 ethnic Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, during the Bosnian war.
The crisis with the corridor, which connects Armenia with the disputed enclave, began last December, when sporadic blockades began to be established, which later worsened with the installation of checkpoints along its route that filtered the passage of trucks. On December 12 it was closed, interrupting since then the transport of 400 daily tons of basic goods.
The intention would be the surrender of the population that resists being annexed to Azerbaijan. Between September and November 2020 there was a war with an all-out offensive by the Azerbaijani armed forces, much more powerful than the local ones.
Both countries of the South Caucasus belonged to the Soviet Union, one a Shiite Muslim and the other an Orthodox Christian. The dictator Joseph Stalin was the one who handed over Nagorno to Azerbaijan. When the communist camp entered into crisis, the Armenians became involved in the first Nagorno war that ended with thousands of deaths and the recovery of the territory that had remained loyal to Yerevan ever since.
In the conflict three years ago, the Azeri regime won much of the territory, including the enclave’s second city, but did not advance over all of the space due to pressure from Russia. which is the economic and military ally of Armenia.
However, due to the war in Ukraine, which reduces the autonomy of the Kremlin in that region, Azerbaijan has been taking steps under the protection of its main protector, Turkey, that it has strong geopolitical appetites over those borders. In this context, the blockade of the Lachin occurred with the danger to its inhabitants.
With the time that has elapsed since that closure, the situation is extremely complex today, as the report indicates. Medical attention is at its minimum, schools are practically not working and there is a pressing shortage of food, including fruits, vegetables and milk.
MC
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