Former ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo presented expert opinion on the blockade of Lachin corridor in a tweet and report dedicated to the issue.
“Genocide against Armenians in 2023
The blockade of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan that impedes access to any food, medical supplies, and other essentials to Nagorno-Karabakh is a Genocide against the ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh under Article II, (c) of the Genocide Convention: “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.”
There are no crematories, and there are no machete attacks. Starvation is the invisible Genocide weapon. Without immediate dramatic change, this group of Armenians will be destroyed in a few weeks.
In many respects, the starvation of the ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh represents the archetype of genocide through the imposition of conditions of life designed to bring about a group’s destruction. It closes a tragic circle because “[t]he treatment of the Armenians by the Turkish rulers in 1915 provides the paradigm for the Genocide provision dealing with imposition of conditions of life”, Ocampo tweeted.
For the full report see:
https://luismorenoocampo.com/lmo_en/report-armenia/
