This is a terrible crime, a genocide which is being carried out by the authorities of Azerbaijan and the dictator Aliyev. Congressman Chris Smith, Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the US Congress, stated this during the hearings called on the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) issue by the aforesaid.

According to him, 120 thousand ethnic Armenians Nagorno-Karabakh are suffering because of the government of Azerbaijan.

Smith said that a new bill related to human rights in Nagorno-Karabakh is being prepared and they are now working in that regard.

Azerbaijan wants to include Artsakh in Azerbaijan; that goal may be unacceptable, it is trying to achieve it through genocide. It does not try to offer solutions for the people of Artsakh. Since December 12, 2022, Azerbaijan has cut off Artsakh from the outside world in an attempt to starve them to death so that eventually they die, Smith said.

According to Congressman Smith, any US support to Azerbaijan will be seen as complicity.