Armenian blogger Roman Baghdasaryan in his video recently described how "Artsakh" separatists in Karabakh artificially create and have created "famine" and "shortage of goods" in the zone of responsibility of Russian peacekeepers in Azerbaijani Karabakh.

This video shows that the separatist leaders are unscrupulously profiting from ordinary Karabakh Armenians, embezzling the money allocated for their needs and selling humanitarian aid at triple the price. In fact, there are many facts that Karabakh is literally "flooded" with food. Moreover, the Azerbaijani authorities are ready at any moment to establish a full-fledged supply of its citizens of Armenian nationality in Karabakh with any goods on the road through Aghdam and without any restrictions.

And this is natural. Azerbaijani Karabakh must be supplied from the territory of Azerbaijan. Nobody would think of supplying St. Petersburg not from the territory of the rest of Russia, but through the "Vyborg corridor" from Finland? 

However, the unarmed "Artsakh" separatists, first of all, artificially create a "deficit" of goods, and secondly, categorically refuse to receive them through Aghdam, demanding that the Lachin road be opened for them, through which they could receive weapons and reinforcements - fighters and mercenaries. Obviously, this is unacceptable neither from the point of view of Azerbaijan's sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh nor from the point of view of the need to establish a lasting peace in the South Caucasus.

Meanwhile, the "Artsakh" separatists, whose time is coming to an end (after the end of the term of stay of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh, they will no longer be able to stay here and hold Karabakh Armenians hostage), purposefully organize sabotage, disruptions in the supply of civilians, have time to shout their next myth about "blockade", "humanitarian disaster" and "genocide" to the whole world.

The Armenian nationalist lobby has activated its "fifth column" in Georgia, which impostorily broadcasts on behalf of the "Civil Society of Georgia" in unison with the "Artsakh" separatists and starts shouting about "blockade", "famine" in Karabakh and "humanitarian catastrophe":

"Georgian civil society echoes the humanitarian crisis that emerged in Nagorno-Karabakh on 28 July 2023. According to various organizations and media, there is an acute shortage of food, medicine and basic necessities in the region.

... The legal and humanitarian situation of women in the blockaded region is doubly complicated. Students in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, numbering up to 27,000, are denied their basic right of access to education, as the functioning of educational institutions is hampered by limited heating and electricity. Due to restrictions on freedom of movement, some 1,100 people in Nagorno-Karabakh cannot return to their homes, including 270 children separated from their parents.

 ...In this reality, the 120,000 people living in Nagorno-Karabakh have been facing serious socio-economic problems and a humanitarian crisis for almost 7 months now..."

And the organizations that signed the appeal: "Center for Social Justice", "Caucasus House", "Center for Human Rights", "Center for Peace and Civic Development (CPCD)", "Democracy Research Institute (DRI)", "Community for Positive Change".

"Center for Social Justice", "Caucasus House", "Center for Human Rights", etc. how many times have you written, addressed Armenia and international organizations about the fate of more than 1,000,000 refugee Azerbaijanis who have lost everything? How many times have you publicly condemned the Khojaly genocide? Have you written appeals and your indignation, condolence for the murdered children of Khojaly or Azerbaijanis welded alive in iron pipes in Kafan?

Here are more questions they will not answer, as it is clear why. To these so-called representatives of "civil society of Georgia" - how do they consider the fact that "Artsakh" separatists recognized "independence" of separatists in Sukhumi and Tskhinvali, supported them fully - with weapons and people? And the fact that their brothers - Armenian fighters of the Baghramyan battalion organized not a humanitarian disaster, but a real genocide of the peaceful Georgian population of Abkhazia, forcing them to flee from their homes through high mountain passes in the cold autumn, where the mass of people died of hunger and cold?

Why does the so-called "civil" society not remember these people, but repeats the speculative propaganda tricks of their executioners? Worrying about "children separated from their parents" these representatives of the fifth column somehow do not worry about Georgian refugee children from Abkhazia who froze to death on the mountain passes in the fall of 1993.

The real civil society of Georgia understands very well that the sooner the separatist criminals in Azerbaijani Karabakh are finished and the sooner they are brought to justice, the sooner justice will be restored in Georgia and Georgian refugees will return to their homes in Sukhumi, Tskhinvali and other towns and villages of Abkhazia and Samachablo.

George Mazniashvili