Volume 1, Issue 2

CONTENTS — ART. 1. U.S. CONDEMNS AZERBAIJAN… — ART. 2. CONTROL NUMBER SYSTEM

Article 1

U.S. condemns Azerbaijani government for war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh

By Antarah Crawley

WASHINGTON, DC — On September 6th, 2023, while the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives sat empty, members of Congress still on vacation, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs held an emergency hearing on the ongoing blockade of the Lachin Corridor in Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as “Artsakh”). Mr. Crawley reported on the proceedings through the House Clerk’s Office of Official Reporters.

The hearing took place in room 2200 Rayburn House Office Building, Christopher H. Smith, (R) NJ-04, Co-Chairman, presiding.  Distinguished persons in attendance included Her Excellency Lilit Makunts, Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the United States of America.  The Chairman remarked that he had put the hearing together with a great sense of urgency; nearly all U.S. representatives were still in their districts for the summer recess.

Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, released his personal Expert Opinion on August 7, stating that “there is a reasonable basis to believe that a Genocide is being committed against Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023” and emphasizing that under the Genocide Conventions all states have a “duty to prevent” genocide. 

Mr. Ocampo submitted to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide that all the elements of that crime (to wit, “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its destruction,” [See, Article II(c)]) were present in early August.  At the hearing, Mr. Ocampo presented his Expert Opinion on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.  

David Phillips, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, also testified on facts relevant to gathering the intent of the government of Azerbaijan.  In the fall of 2020, in response to unprovoked attacks against the Armenians in Artsakh, Mr. Phillips undertook a research and documentation project in cooperation with Columbia University and the Artsakh Human Rights Ombudsman Office called “Atrocities Artsakh.” 

The Chairman opened the hearing by stating that 120,000 ethnic Armenians have been sealed off from food and medicine and are being starved to death by the Azerbaijan government.  He strongly and in no uncertain terms condemned the government of Azerbaijan — particularly President Ilham Aliyev, whom he called a “dictator” — for planning, testing, and imposing this crime of genocide upon the ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh.  The Chairman mentioned his efforts to publicize, litigate, and dialogue with President Aliyev concerning the safety of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh since 2013.  

The most aggressive Azeri attack on Artsakh came in 2020, from September 27th to November 10th, in what is called the Forty Four Day War.  The war claimed more than 3,900 Armenian lives, displaced over 100,000 civilians, and ended with the signing of a trilateral statement between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia.  Working together with the government of Turkey, Azerbaijan archived military dominance over Nagorno-Karabakh, and shrank the size of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.  Azeri forces were backed by the Turkish military and mercenaries with armed drones, heavy artillery, rocket systems and special forces.  There are numerous verified cases of Azerbaijani soldiers mutilating dead bodies, beheading and executing both combatants and civilians, and using banned weapons (e.g. cluster bombs, white phosphorus gas).  Since December 12, 2022, Azerbaijan has drastically reduced and then completely cut access to the outside world with the evident intention to starve the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh into submission.

The Chairman remarked, by way of historical background, that “Armenians have lived in Nagorno-Karabakh for over two thousand years.  As the Soviet Union collapsed and the states of Armenia and Azerbaijan emerged out of it, Armenians and Azerbaijanis fought a war […] driven in part by the fact that the boundaries of the new Armenian and Azerbaijani states did not correspond to the ethnic boundaries.  Since 1994, Nagorno-Karabakh has been an enclave within Azerbaijan, in which the Armenians have defended and governed themselves.  They have been connected to the outside world only by a limited access road called the Lachin Corridor to Armenia, as per international agreements.  Their independence has not been recognized by any other country — not even by the Republic of Armenia.  The government of Azerbaijan […] seeks to fully integrate Nagorno-Karabakh into Azerbaijan” evidently by committing genocide on the resident population.

This set of circumstances is strikingly similar to those present between Russia and Ukraine, and China and Taiwan, where a world power seeks to forcibly integrate a neighboring sovereign nation into its sphere of direct control.  This author perceives the elements of a World War at play.

Mr. Ocampo relayed that fifteen judges at the International Court of Justice in the Hague reviewed the issue, heard testimony of ethnic Armenians, and concluded that blocking the Lachin Corridor was creating an imminent risk for Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Mr. Phillips outlined a record of the Aliyev regime’s admissions of genocidal intent and partnership with the Turkish Erdogan regime in actions to erase the Armenian physical, religious, and cultural presence in Artsakh and eventually the current Republic of Armenia, which has already been whittled down to a small fraction of its historic size. Turkey exerts partial control over the Azerbaijan government. 

The blockade of the Lachin Corridor began with so-called Azerbaijani “eco-activists” who colluded and worked with authorities to gain access to and block the corridor.  Contrary to reports that the group had no relation to the government of Azerbaijan, Mr. Phillip reports that there is ample documentation to prove that the “eco-activists” were agents of the government; most telling is the fact that they left when the Azeri government established its own checkpoint to block the road.  The eco-activists did not represent environmental causes prior to their blockade, and reports link them to entities which received U.S. funding. [See, “The Azerbaijani Government’s ‘Eco-Activists’ Agents … Evidence of State Control and Hatred” at https://tatoyanfoundation.org/joint-report/?lang=en.] 

Mr. Phillips named names of Turkish commanders and personnel, Azerbaijani commanders and decorated personnel, jihadi mercenary leaders, Azerbaijani prosecutors involved in the trial of Armenian Prisoners of War (POWs), and others involved in the atrocities against Artsakh.  In conclusion, Mr. Phillips described the blockade of the Lachin corridor as “severing the soul connection between Artsakh and Armenia, as well as the outside world,” and advised that the Lachin corridor must be opened immediately to humanitarian, commercial, and passenger traffic; gas, electricity, internet, and air connection should be restored; Russian peacekeepers who cannot maintain order should be supplemented or replaced; POWs must be accurately accounted for and released; and representatives from Baku and Stepanakert must agree urgently on modalities for transporting emergency provision.

The Chairman referenced the recent development that Azerbaijan has blocked a convoy of ten trucks carrying humanitarian assistance to Artsakh from several regions of France, which arrived in Kornidzor in Armenia’s Syunik Province at the entrance of the Lachin Corridor on Wednesday, from entering Artsakh. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is leading a delegation of French officials accompanying the humanitarian convoy; the delegation was also blocked by the Azeri government. (https://asbarez.com/paris-mayor-leads-french-humanitarian-aid-convoy-to-lachin-corridor/).  

The Chairman asked, “Should Aliyev be indicted by the International Criminal Court” for blocking humanitarian aid and perpetrating war crimes.  Mr. Ocampo replied that, today, “the International Criminal Court cannot investigate him because neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia are state parties,” although the UN Security Council could go through Russia to effect its purposes.  Mr. Ocampo also observed that since there is no UN prosecutor on this case, “there is no one with a single agenda to protect geneocide except this [Tom Lantos Human Rights] commission.” 

Mr. Ocampo urged the Commission not to wait for indictments and sanctions from the UN, but to produce and provide to the White House all the elements they need to find Aliyev a genocider, and to operationalize strategies to prevent genocide.  While he would support any prosecution of President Aliyev, he demanded “a more political and faster solution” because “these people will die.”  

Mr. Phillips also reiterated that Azerbaijan wants to ethically cleanse Artsakh of its Armenian population, and, as Mr. Ocompo proposed, the US should act immediately, not in a month.  

The Chairman replied that he would send a letter on the ground condition in Artsakh and U.S. strategic responses to President Biden today.  “Delay is denial,” he said.

The Chairman urged the Biden Administration to “wake up [to the situation in Nagorgo-Karabakh], recognize the absolutely grave responsibility it has here, and focus on finding and implementing a humane solution. And this must mean that the blockade is lifted and the people continues to live in its ancient homeland. The situation is now a three-alarm fire.” 

Upon the adjournment of the hearing, the room erupted in applause.  Tensions ran high thereafter, as the Chairman, staff, attendees, and members of the news media engaged in free and open discourse.

As the Ombudsman of Free Thinkers, Truth Speakers, and Light Workers United, it is in the interest of the N∴S∴ to identify and condemn genocide wherever it is.

In the 1963 words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

Sources:

Phillips, David L. “Nagorno-Karabakh Update.” Presented to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. September 6, 2023.

Smith, Christopher H. “Nagorno-Karabakh: An Update.” Emergency Hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Human Rights. “ATROCITIES ARTSAKH (NAGORNO-KARABAKH)” (webpage). https://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/peace-building/atrocities-artsakh-nagorno-karabakh.

(last modified 19 Oct 2023)

Article 2

Control Number System

By Antarah Crawley

WASHINGTON, DC — N∴S∴ has discovered the use of numbers to control non-numerical entities, up to and including the whole world. As we know, the world and all which is therein belongs to the Lord our God, and dominion therein is granted to humanity for an inheritance. However, is has come to pass that bodies corpus and corporate (“corporations”), being dead and not alive of their own spiritus, have been assigned this dominion by unwitting living people. The dead can then use numbers to control their freely-assigned dominion without the agency of the original living signer. A signer can even assign dominion over themself to the corporation by accepting and underwriting a certain number issued to them by the opposing party (hence “trading with the enemy”). All future use of such number implies that the user is subject to the issuer of the number and their orders — specifically, written instructions to pay money signed by the issuer. Therefore it is advisable for a living soul to reserve ALL of their rights without prejudice to ANY rights as a result of an unconscionable signing using Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.) Section 1-308, that is, the insurance at public remedy on what you do not know you are waiving.

The separation of church and state is a fallacy, as religious rites are the highest civil rights in the nature of a sincerely held belief. Such a belief includes that a living soul is a child of God, a member of the Nation of Israel, and a member of the body of Christ and heir to the Kingdom of God. However, accepting a number such as a Social Security Number or serialized Federal Reserve Note is evidence of being subject to the corporations which issued them. As it is said, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Mark 12:17). In consequence of these facts, N∴S∴ has implemented a standard numbering system to control its intellectual property. 

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