Economy of Artsakh suffers $190 million damage because of Azerbaijani blockade
YEREVAN, March 21. /ARKA/. Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) human rights defender Gegham Stepanyan released an extraordinary report in Armenian, English and Russian languages on the violations of individual and collective rights of Artsakh people as a result of the 100-day blockade by Azerbaijan.
The report provides comprehensive and detailed information about the violations of 7 individual rights, 5 rights of vulnerable groups and 4 collective rights, which reflect the deepening humanitarian crisis and the genocidal policy of Azerbaijan against Artsakh people.
The report also includes 24 photographs and 27 stories about the blockade, and 46 documents from 2016 on the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict and the violations of the rights of the people of Artsakh in its context.
In parallel with the total blockade of Artsakh, Azerbaijan deliberately disrupts the normal functioning of its vital infrastructures – natural gas, electricity, communications in order to further exacerbate the already grave humanitarian crisis and inflict human suffering on the people of Artsakh.
The ongoing blockade by Azerbaijan, the disruption of vital infrastructure, as well as periodic and consistent armed attacks and threats to use force aim at ethnic cleansing of Artsakh and destruction of its indigenous Armenian population through physical and psychological terror and creation of unbearable living conditions, the document says. The full report in English is available here.-0-
