Aliyev has targeted and continues to target all Armenians. With COP29, Baku aims to “whitewash” the crimes it committed and gain additional international legitimacy to carry out further offenses at a lower cost, Artak Beglaryan, former state minister of the Republic of Artsakh, told ABC media.
“Just the fact that we have been forcibly displaced, that the civilian population has been regularly targeted, and that there have been beheadings and other crimes encouraged by Aliyev himself, along with numerous other crimes such as the blockade and subjecting people to starvation, represent a spectrum of international crimes that illustrate the risks facing the people of Artsakh under Aliyev’s rule,” Beglaryan said.
He noted that all these circumstances have been documented by international organizations. In its second report, Freedom House stated that the Azerbaijani authorities have implemented a long-term, deliberate, planned, and systematic policy of ethnic cleansing. However, Freedom House chose not to use the term genocide.
Beglaryan noted that great powers must have the political will to take appropriate measures for international accountability.
