Armenians Falsely Paint Lachin Corridor Protests As ‘Humanitarian Disaster’

Within recent weeks, ANCA has been rallying people in the United States behind the belief that what is happening along the Lachin Corridor is a humanitarian disaster and a blockade, even though the reality paints an entirely different picture, one of a people protesting against environmental terrorism. (Azerbaijan does not control the area, which is controlled by Russian peacekeepers.) 

Never mind that the International Red Cross is given unimpeded access to the civilian Armenian population and that plenty of aid gets through.

A town hall meeting in California together with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and put out a statement to this effect. Hundreds of activists came together on Capitol Hill, arguing that all assistance to Azerbaijan should end as long as the Lachin Corridor protests continue. Almost every week, they are engaged in activities rallying the American public against Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, some members of the Congress have even bought into their propaganda and issued statements of their own.

More problematically, the Illinois Holocaust Museum decided to join ANCA’s propaganda campaign. According to a statement, “For almost two months, the Azerbaijani government has blockaded this route, cutting off the electricity and stopping nearly all movement of people and goods either into or out of Artsakh. Children have been separated from their parents, food is being rationed, and medicine and other essentials are in short supply.”

They added: “Armenians are now referring to this moment as a “second Genocide”, echoing the atrocities against them by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The Illinois Holocaust Museum urges the Biden administration and international leaders to mobilize immediate humanitarian assistance to the Armenians blockaded in Artsakh, as well as lend the full weight of their offices to lift Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor.”