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The Azerbaijani government has blockaded Nagorno-Karabakh for 68 days under the guise of an “eco-protest”, trapping 120,000 people, causing shortages of food, medicine, and other essentials, and deliberately interrupting gas and electricity supplies in harsh winter conditions.

Arman Tatoyan, Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan, advisor to Artsakh State Minister Artak Beglaryan, and citizens of Artsakh explain the suffering Azerbaijan’s cruel blockade is inflicting and Azerbaijan’s ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing the Armenian population of Artsakh.

Artsakh footage courtesy of:
Sabina Grigoryan
Gev Iskanyan
Marut Vanyan
Armine Beglarian
David Ghahramanyan
Nina

Washokani IDP camp in Hasakah, Syria houses 16k of the civilians who fled Ras al-Ain because of the 2019 Turkish/Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) invasion. “They murder, they loot, they kidnap people for ransom,” one camp resident says of Turkey’s SNA mercenaries. “How could we possibly live with them?”

As the governments of Turkey and Armenia discuss normalization of relations, Azerbaijani incursions into and attacks on Armenia’s Syunik province continue. In November, Azerbaijani forces closed the Goris-Kapan and Kapan-Chakaten roads, isolating border villages in Syunik.

“There is a clear contradiction between what is stated at the political level and what is happening on the ground,” said Arman Tatoyan, Armenia’s Human Rights Ombudsman. “I want to see a person go to one of our border communities and tell them that the Azerbaijani forces want peace.”

I filmed this earlier in the year in Artsakh, just after Azat Adamyan, a veteran of both the 2016 and 2020 wars, reopened his bar, Bardak.

“To give power to life, we must force ourselves to come back to the life we had before.”