Melik-Shahnazaryan calls Kessab situation humanitarian catastrophe
The Kessab events should not be presented as genocide, political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told reporters.
“Kessab Mayor Vazgen Chaparyan reported this night that all of the 18 elderly people who remained in Kessab are alive,” the expert said.
Melik-Shahnazaryan called the situation in Kessab a humanitarian catastrophe, adding that Kessab Armenians need our support.
The expert also said that a genocide could take place if the people were not evacuated from Kessab immediately.
The Armenian populated villages of Kessab in Syria were the target of three days of brutal cross-border attacks from Turkey. Some 800 Armenian families, the majority of the population of Kessab, were evacuated by the local Armenian community leadership to safer areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia.