Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stated in an interview with the VOA Armenian Service that Genocide is being carried out in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) today, News.am informed.
At the request of the Armenian side, he presented his expert opinion on the blocking of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijan and the resultant catastrophic humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Reflecting on the five variants of the crime defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention, Ocampo singled out the creation of conditions for the extermination of a group of people, which does not even foresee the existence of casualties.
The 15 judges of the International Court of Justice unanimously decided that blocking the Lachin corridor poses an immediate threat to the lives of people living in Nagorno-Karabakh, he said. In his opinion, the intentions of the Azerbaijani side are obvious. Baku continues to reject calls from the international community to reopen the Lachine corridor, ignoring the ruling of the International Court of Justice.
ARTSAKHPRESS
