Armenian community of Los Angeles makes protest in front of Azerbaijani Consulate

YEREVAN, APRIL 7, ARMENPRESS. On Friday, April 8, the Armenian community of Los Angeles will gather in front of the Azerbaijani Consulate to protest recent attacks by the Azerbaijani government on the peaceful population of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. “Armenpress” was informed about this by the Armenian Youth Federation of the United States. “We condemn Azerbaijan’s continued vicious attacks and war crimes against the peaceful civilian population of Nagorno Karabakh and fully support the independent Republic of Nagorno Karabakh and its right to self-determination. Although a bilateral ceasefire was declared on April 5, Azerbaijan still continues its attacks. The root causes of this endless cycle of violence remain, and must be protested”, said Joseph Kaskanian of the Armenian Youth Federation.

He stated that the Azerbaijani government is committing war crimes and severely breaching international human rights laws by shelling civilian populations, which is totally unacceptable.

The participants of the protest will express their solidarity with the people of Nagorno Karabakh at 1 p.m local time.

Along the entire length of the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani opposing forces, on April 1 and throughout the morning of April 2, the adversary undertook large-scale offensive military actions, during which the adversary shelled with missile-artillery units not only Armenian defense positions, but also civilian settlements.

According to the data of the Defense Army, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher on April 2, at 08: 30 in the direction of Martuni (NKR), killing 12 year old Vaghinak Grigoryan and wounding two other children. 4 other civilians were wounded later.On April 3 the subversive group of Azerbaijan brutally killed 3 elderly and vandalized their corpses in Talish village.

The Armenian side has 32 causalities, 25 soldiers missing, 121 wounded. 5 more people including the heads of two rural communities of Syunik Marz,were killed on their way to Martakert on April 4.

Due to the timely and professional actions of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army, it was possible to take the situation under control, and make the enemy suffer considerable losses. On April 1-5 as a result of the crushing counterattacks by the Armenian side against the military aggressions towards the Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijan lost 2 helicopters, 24 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 7 UAVs, 1 21-MM multiple rocket launcher system. During military operations the Azerbaijani armed forces had more than 300 causalities, nearly 2000 wounded. On April 5 at 12:00, the fire was ceased in the line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces. The agreement of ceasing the fire was reached at the meeting of the Chiefs of General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on April 5.

Azerbaijan intensively violates the ceasefire. In the early morning of April 7, two sabotage penetration attempts were made by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan even fired towards the Vardenis city in Armenia on April 6.