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“Azerbaijan's most recent unprovoked killing, just a few hours ago, of yet another Armenian - Garen G. Galasyan (20), along the Nagorno Karabakh border underscores the urgent need for our Congress to suspend U.S. military aid until Baku cease its attacks, fully renounces violence, and commits to the peaceful resolution of regional conflicts,” the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) says in a statement posted on its Facebook page.  

“This fatal cross-border sniper assault is the Azerbaijani military's second killing of an Armenian in a week that saw a dramatic escalation of Baku's war rhetoric and the wounding of a 16 year-old Armenian girl by an Azerbaijani sniper.”

In the same post, ANCA urges to call members of the U.S. House and Senate panels responsible for writing the Fiscal Year 2015 bill to ask them to eliminate American aid to the Azerbaijani military.

On Jan. 28, an Armenian soldier, Karen Galstyan, 19, was killed by Azeri sniper fire. He was shot in his head while keeping vigil at a northern military unit of NKR Defense Army. An investigation is being conducted.