What is This Evil Under the Sun in Azerbaijan?

THE FACTS  (From Amnesty International condensed by Armenian General Benevolent Union [AGBU]
How to explain the crisis

1. The Lachin Corridor, the only road connecting Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) to Armenia, has been blocked by Azerbaijan since December 12, 2022, isolating 120,000 ethnic Armenians, including 30,000 children. Armenians are calling this “The Road of Life”.
    
2. 120,000 people now live with no gas supply, rationed food, medicine and electricity and with baby formula and insulin syringes in dangerously low supply. 
    
3. With unreliable heating and limited electricity and food, all educational institutions are closed, depriving thousands of children the right to education. 
    
4. Cutting and limiting critical civilian infrastructure in the dead of winter sends a clear message to the citizens of Artsakh - Azerbaijan wants them out and will continue to terrorize their mental health and stability.
    
5. The humanitarian crisis is dire –– food and medicine supplies are depleting hourly with the only road connecting Artsakh to the outside world blocked by Aliyev's government operatives.
    
6. The United Nations Security Council unanimously called for Azerbaijan to lift the blockade without preconditions, allowing the free movement of people and goods from Artsakh to Armenia.
    
7. The need for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to mediate the transport of a seriously ill infant refutes claims of free movement through the Lachin Corridor.
    
8. Until the road is open, international humanitarian organizations must have access to an air corridor to provide humanitarian support –– Aliyev has threatened to shoot down any planes flying to Stepanakert airport.
    
9. Azerbaijan initiated the blockade claiming environmental activists on the corridor triggered their action. There are no “activists” at the Lachin Corridor – they are operatives of the Azerbaijani authoritarian regime conducting tactical hybrid warfare. Freedom House rates Azerbaijan as “Not Free" with "little room for independent expression or activism," clearly rebutting claims their operatives are independent actors.
    
10. This is a hybrid warfare tactic meant to isolate the people of Artsakh to either run them out or begin the inevitable ethnic cleansing campaign Aliyev has long promised to carry out.