John Kerry is being urged to decry Azerbaijani war crime
LOS ANGELES–Armenian-American community leaders of Southern California called on of Secretary of State John Kerry to utilize his April 12 visit to Los Angeles to forcefully condemn Azerbaijan’s April 2nd massive military attack on the independent Republic of Nagorno Karabakh and to launch official investigations into atrocities committed against Armenian civilians and confirmed reports of Azerbaijani war crimes, including the mutilation and beheading of corpses and torture of captured and killed soldiers and civilians.
The Kerry Connection: Azerbaijan’s attack, which resulted in scores of deaths, came just days after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Washington, DC with Secretary Kerry and, separately with Vice President Joe Biden. During these meetings, and in the years leading up to this attack, the Obama Administration has consistently failed to confront President Aliyev’s regional aggression, to impose economic sanctions on his regime, or to halt the flow of U.S. military aid to his armed forces.
A Diplomatic Failure: The Obama Administration’s diplomatic failure to confront Aliyev has emboldened his increasingly authoritarian Azerbaijan, effectively “green-lightingâ€
