I returned, heartbroken, on Sunday from Armenia, where I met Armenians suffering from forced displacement by Azerbaijan from their homeland of Nagorno‑Karabakh; and others living in fear imposed by Azerbaijan’s current creeping invasion and occupation of Armenian sovereign territory.
I heard accounts of Azerbaijan’s continuing imprisonment of Armenians as hostages; and of the grave suffering inflicted by Azerbaijan on the Armenian civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh through its brutal blockade, since December, of the Lachin corridor – the only internationally recognised access route for provision of essential food and medical supplies – causing severe health problems including the risk of malnutrition for 30,000 children, which may cause irreversible physical and mental stunting.
