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Several hundred demonstrators turned out in West Los Angeles Sunday for a march organized by The Armenian Youth Federation over the aggression launched against Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh).

According to CNS report, the protest made its way from the Wilshire Federal Building at 11000 Wilshire Blvd. to the Azerbaijani Consulate General offices, as activists decried recent actions by Azerbaijan and Turkey over the Nagorno-Karabakh.

The youth organization was on the sixth day of a hunger strike, according to Alex Galitsky, a spokesperson for the Armenian National Committee of America's Western Region, who cited recent military action in Stepanakert as evidence of the need to raise awareness about the conflict.

"Evidence of Turkey and Azerbaijan's mobilization had been reported for weeks prior to this latest act of belligerency, with Azerbaijan mobilizing reservists, commandeering civilian vehicles for military use, and Turkey's contracting and transporting of Syrian mercenaries to Azerbaijan," he said. "The carefully coordinated nature of the assault contradicts Azerbaijan's claims that it was retaliating to alleged Armenian aggression."