Fri 17 September 2021:
On Thursday, Armenia took Azerbaijan to the United Nations’ top court, accusing it of decades of human rights violations, including last year’s war over a disputed region.
The International Court of Justice stated in a statement that Yerevan has asked it to take immediate measures to “defend and preserve Armenia’s rights.”
Armenia’s complaint is based on a claim that Azerbaijan violated the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a UN convention.
The Armenian application says that “for decades, Azerbaijan has subjected Armenians to racial discrimination,” according to the ICJ.
“As a result of this state-sponsored policy of Armenian hatred, Armenians have been subjected to systemic discrimination, mass killings, torture and other abuse,” the Armenian case says.
Armenian also says that the alleged violations “once again came to the fore in September 2020, after Azerbaijan’s aggression.”
Last autumn, a six-week conflict over Azerbaijan’s breakaway province of Nagorno-Karabakh claimed the lives of almost 6,500 people.
It came to a conclusion in November with a truce brokered by Russia, under which Armenia relinquished control of regions it had held for decades.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan that broke away from Baku after the Soviet Union fell apart in the early 1990s. Around 30,000 people have died as a result of the subsequent conflict.
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