Today, the dictatorship of Azerbaijan launched a full-scale military attack on Nagorno Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, where 120,000 Armenian Christians have been under siege for nine months.
The president of Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Dr. John Eibner, warns, “If Azerbaijan’s allies and commercial partners – the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, European Union, Israel, and Switzerland – do not act immediately to restrain it, there will be mass killings and other atrocities against the region’s civilian population. Genocide is imminent.”
CSI has received word from the minister of health for the Republic of Artsakh, Vardan Tadevosyan, that the capital city of Stepanakert is being bombed continuously by artillery. “We are under attack,” he says.
Azerbaijan’s defense ministry has announced that it has begun a military operation to “neutralize [the] military infrastructure” of the Armenians and “restore the constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan.” An armed Azerbaijani conquest of Nagorno Karabakh will entail nothing less than the destruction of its ancient Armenian population.
On September 7, Elchin Amirbayov, a senior spokesman for Azerbaijan’s president, menacingly predicted “a genocide may happen” if Nagorno Karabakh’s elected leaders fail to submit.
A CSI team was in Armenia from September 11 to 16, and was able to observe Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor, the only road connecting Nagorno Karabakh to the outside world. The CSI team also observed Azerbaijani military outposts built many kilometers inside the Republic of Armenia itself. It is highly likely that this war will spread to southern Armenia and beyond.
CSI’s Joel Veldkamp, who was part of the visiting delegation, stated, “For nine months, the major powers – Russia, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom – have done nothing to end this siege, or avert this very predictable outcome.”
A week after Azerbaijan’s siege of Nagorno Karabakh began, on December 19, 2022, CSI and nine other human rights groups issued a Genocide Warning for the Armenian Christians of the region. “Despite this early and clear warning, the world failed to respond,” Veldkamp stated.
On September 14, Yuri Kim, the U.S. State Department’s Acting Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, stated in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that “the U.S. will not countenance any action or effort—short-term or long-term—to ethnically cleanse or commit other atrocities against the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.”
Azerbaijan is now doing just that.
Eibner states, “The United States and other members of the UN Security Council must now do collectively and individually what they should have done nine months ago – immediately use every lever at their disposal to restrain Azerbaijan and protect Nagorno Karabakh’s Armenians, including sanctioning the Azerbaijani perpetrators.”
“If not, they will be complicit in another Armenian Genocide.”
Cross-posted from Christian Solidarity International.
somehistory says
And while this “genocide” is happening, the only *talk* and *concern* and money and help given, is to the criminal despot in ukraine.
The “world hates” Jesus’ children and so no care or concern nor help is given to them in this country where they are being bombed, starved, etc. and none in places such as nigeria where they are being slaughtered.
Everywhere, mozlums are making absolute war on Christians and the world doesn’t give a hoot. Just as Jesus said would be the case. He is a True, and Wonderful, Prophet. And His promises will come True as well.
GreekEmpress says
The United Armenian Fund is the collective effort of the Armenian Assembly of America, the Armenian General Benevolent Union, the Armenian Relief Society.among others and support relief effort in Artsakh.
People can donate on line or mail donations to:
United Armenian Fund
1101 N. Pacific Ave. #301
Glendale, CA 91202
Tel:818-241-8900
I have Armenian ancestry (just more Greek) so I’m going to put money where my mouth is.
somehistory says
Thank you for the info, GE. And good for you.
Giving to such always reminds me of what James wrote about not just saying, “keep warm and well-fed.” (James 2:16)
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Fully agree w/ Christian Solidarity International. But can they get some more countries – particularly Russia and Greece – to step up support to Armenia?
gannon says
It is interesting that Iran supports Armenia while Israel supports Azerbaijan.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, race trumps faith here. Although one reason Iran is supporting Armenia is that Azerbaijan claims that the Iranian province of the same name belongs to them i.e. Azerbaijan has territorial claims on Iran just like they have in Armenia. Israel loves the idea that it’s friends w/ the -stans, and is therefore supporting it, ignoring the justice of the matter, and also ignoring the fact that the -stans are now allies of Turkey in the Organization of Turkic states, & could be flipped against Israel anytime
ElderlyZionist says
It’s over. The Azeris overran Armenian defense positions, and the Russians brokered an Armenian surrender. The Artsakh Republic agreed this morning to cease fire and disarm. The Azeri army is occupying Nagorno-Karabakh, and will proceed to re-integrate the territory into Azerbaijan.
I have seen very little comment on this war in American media. Al-Jazeera has covered it. I can find news when I do a web search, but it’s not in my newsfeed.
GreekEmpress says
This is all I could find. I hope the Armenians can get out of there before the Azeris and Turks start the bloodbath.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-calls-azerbaijan-halt-karabakh-attack-russia-urges-return-ceasefire-2023-09-20/