The world stands by as new Armenian Genocide unfolds- Genocide Watch
YEREVAN, October 2. /ARKA/. 'Two years after President Biden formally recognized the 1915 Armenian Genocide, the world is standing by as another Armenian genocide and forced deportation unfolds, says a story published by Gencoi8de Watch.
It says the forced deportation and genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh, known to Armenians as Artsakh, is the culmination of a decades-long conflict. Artsakh is the homeland of 120,000 Armenians, who have lived there since the fifth century.
The story quotes EU’s policy chief Josep Borrell as saying, “This military escalation should not be used as a pretext to force the exodus of the local population.” Forced deportation is a crime against humanity and over 100,000 people have already fled from Nagorno-Karabakh.
The story says that Azerbaijani propaganda dehumanizes Armenians. Azerbaijan schoolchildren’s' textbooks portray Armenians as evil, aggressive enemies. Tofig Veliyev, head of the department of History of Slavic Countries at Baku State University, claims that negative expressions are required to portray Armenians "accurately."
Azerbaijan is erasing Armenia's ancient history. Azerbaijani historians and falsely claim that Armenia and Artsakh are historical Turkic lands. Azerbaijan systematically destroys Armenian Christian churches and holy sites.
Azerbaijani President Aliyev claimed that Armenians would be guaranteed rights in Azerbaijan. In reality, Azerbaijani military have already begun sharing videos of themselves shooting and killing Armenians.
Hundreds of documented Azerbaijani war crimes prove that Armenians will not be safe under an Azerbaijani government.
The U.S. and European Union cannot feign ignorance about Azerbaijan's forced deportation and genocide in Artsakh.
This is not the first time that the U.S. and Europe failed to act to stop an Armenian genocide, as they did during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The U.S. and E.U. were also bystanders in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide.
The Armenians of Artsakh have endured ten months of blockade and starvation. USAID Administrator Samantha Power traveled to Armenia this week to show support for Armenia’s sovereignty. But she arrived too late to begin the airlift of supplies into Artsakh that Genocide Watch has demanded since 2022. -0-
