People supporting Armenia demonstrated outside the Azerbaijani Consulate in L.A.
More than 100 people gathered outside the Azerbaijani Consulate in Los Angeles on Saturday demanding an end to attacks by Azerbaijan forces in a disputed border region with Armenia and Artsakh, where an estimated 200 people were killed in the past week.by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and two Armenian American members of Congress, and the introduction of a resolution in Congress by Rep. Adam B. Schiff demanding a prohibition on U.S. assistance to Azerbaijan.
“We’re hoping that the United States comes down hard on Azerbaijan,” she said. “For President Biden to be calling for peace while funding Azerbaijan’s military is a crazy — and deadly — double standard.” The movement was launched in the 1980s, when children of survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1918 established themselves in the U.S. The genocide claimed the lives of more than 1 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, which became the modern republic of Turkey.
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