The Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons prohibits humiliating, insulting "humanity" that violates human dignity. Nagorno-Karabakh State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.
“Azerbaijan as before, during the days of the 44-day war in 2020, as well as after that, to this day, is carrying out a plan to physically destroy the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), expel them from Artsakh, and forcibly subjugate the rest. Yet on November 9, 2020, when drafting the text of the trilateral statement and signing it, the participating parties rightly came to the conclusion that the existence of the people of Artsakh, their security, obtaining necessary and safe goods for their needs, receiving proper medical care, and ensuring safe communication with the outside world is possible, is exclusively in the conditions of an unhindered connection with the Republic of Armenia, for which the Lachin Corridor is planned. Since December 12, 2022, Azerbaijan deliberately created a humanitarian crisis in Artsakh, closed the road connecting Artsakh to Armenia, during that time organized murders, attempted murders, property destruction and damage, used military force, threatened to use it, and at the same time started forcing humanitarian aid - from its "hand" and the way it suggests.
The demand of the people of Artsakh to receive humanitarian aid from the Republic of Armenia and to have contact with the Republic of Armenia is not an arbitrary desire, but an awareness of their own security and self-preservation, which fully fits into the logic of international humanitarian law. A person cannot be forced to obtain a livelihood from someone who openly kills or threatens to kill that person, such phenomena were typical to slave societies.
The Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons guarantees humanitarianism without discrimination and, conversely, prohibits humiliating, insulting and degrading humanitarianism. And today Azerbaijan is trying to deliver this kind of "humanity" to the people of Artsakh by using coercion, violence and the threat of violence.”
