Genocide Watch calls on U.S. government to impose sanctions on Azerbaijan
The Genocide Watch alliance calls on the U.S. authorities to impose sanctions on Azerbaijan and send emergency humanitarian assistance to the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
“The U.S. government must condemn Azerbaijan’s actions and:
1) Enforce Section 907 and stop all U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijan.
2) Impose sanctions on Azerbaijan, using Magnitsky laws and all other applicable legal instruments.
3) Send emergency humanitarian assistance - by air or land - to the 120,000 Armenians suffering a humanitarian crisis,” it said in a statement on Monday.
For over three weeks, large groups of Azerbaijanis posing as eco-activists have blocked the Lachin corridor, Artsakh’s sole land link with Armenia, to protest what they claim is illegal mining.