Azerbaijan organizes creeping ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh:   Armenia`s Deputy Permanent Representative to UN

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan creates unbearable conditions for indigenous Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh in an attempt  to force them to leave their ancestral homes.This includes regular obstructions of the gas pipeline and electric grid that supply  Nagorno-Karabakh and periodic shelling of villages and agricultural fields. 

Hrachuhi Katvalyan, Deputy Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN Office in Geneva, stated this in response to the statements made by Azerbaijan at the High Level Segment of the Human Rights Council.

As the Deputy Permanent Representative stated, "The recent and most  horrendous act of Azerbaijan has been the continuous blockade of the  Lachin Corridor. Only handful of people, mainly in severe health  conditions, have managed to travel on ICRC cars across the Lachin  Corridor. The emergency medical care is contingent on negotiated ICRC  transfers, as if in a time of war.  Meanwhile, Azerbaijan announced  at the highest level that it can lift the blockade only for those who  want to leave Nagorno-Karabakh. In other words, ethnic Armenians may  not enter Nagorno-Karabakh, but they may leave. It is a creeping  ethnic cleansing in making.  Azerbaijan unleashed an aggression  against Armenia last September. According to five UN Special  Procedures Mandate Holders during this attack Azerbaijan perpetrated  extrajudicial killings of Armenian PoWs and civilians, committed  torture, desecration of bodies, including women. The SPMH stated that  these could amount to war crimes," Katvalyan noted.