PanARMENIAN.Net - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Azerbaijan's actions in 2023 continued a genocidal campaign, citing the mass displacement of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Azerbaijan continued Turkey's genocidal campaign in 2023," Zohran Mamdani wrote on X on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
"Paying tribute to Armenian Genocide's 1.5 million victims killed by the Ottoman Empire across present-day Turkey, Syria and Armenia, we must not allow history to repeat itself.
In 2020, the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan displaced more than 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing a genocidal campaign that began more than a century ago.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people, and all peoples, to freedom, security and self-determination," he wrote.
On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack against Artsakh, subjecting the territory to massive shelling. A day later, on September 20, the authorities accepted a ceasefire proposal by the Russian peacekeeping command, agreeing to Baku's terms, including disarmament and the dissolution of the Republic of Artsakh. As a result of the attack, 223 people were killed, including 20 civilians, six of them minors. From September 24, the forced displacement of Artsakh residents began, with more than 100,000 people fleeing to Armenia. According to some reports, about 20 Armenians remained in Artsakh; of them, 11 later returned to Armenia, one died, and one was detained.
Source: PanArmenian.Net
