Boycott Baku Coalition created in US to hold Azerbaijan accountable for ethnic cleansing

This week, a new informal coalition of individuals and organizations opposed to Azerbaijan’s past genocide/ethnic cleansing launched a multimedia campaign to boycott Baku, Mirror Spectator writes.

The immediate focus is to raise awareness about past, present and prospective Azeri crimes against humanity and to discourage international attendance at and sponsorship of the 29th Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP29).

The Coalition to Boycott Baku’s campaign is being initiated on myriad social media platforms, television programs and podcasts across America keying off messaging initially presented via mobile billboard in Washington, D.C. The display showed the following messages outside of, among other sites: the Azerbaijani and British embassies, the World Wildlife Fund, the State Department, the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and COP29 sponsors, Meta and Amazon: “Good with Genocide? Get Complicit at COP29; ” “Hate Polluters? Azerbaijan has a cell for you;” “Friend of Genocide? Greenlight it at COP29;” “Hate Pollution? Boycott Baku;” “Good with Genocide? Join the Greenwash at COP29” and “Love Jesus? Azerbaijan hates Him.”

The coalition also delivered letters this week to selected governments, international agencies, environmental groups and sponsors of the 29th Conference of Parties, urging them not to attend, underwrite or otherwise enable the legitimation of the Azeri regime, the greenwashing of its past genocide and the greenlighting of its promised one. Among the addressees were: President Joe Biden; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer; U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank; the leaders of the World Wildlife Fund, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace; and the top executives of Meta, Amazon and United Airlines.

For more information about the Coalition and its campaign, visit BoycottBaku.org.