{"id":38612,"date":"2023-09-11T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38612"},"modified":"2023-09-11T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:49:32","slug":"congressman-warns-of-genocide-ethnic-cleansing-against-christians-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/congressman-warns-of-genocide-ethnic-cleansing-against-christians-in-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Warns of \u2018Genocide,\u2019 \u2018Ethnic Cleansing\u2019 Against Christians in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith called on his colleagues Wednesday to recognize that 120,000 Armenian Christians<\/a> living in Nagorno-Karabakh are facing extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDelay is denial,\u201d Smith, who chaired the emergency congressional hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh as co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, said in a statement to The Daily Signal. \u201cThe Biden Administration must say immediately that this is genocide\u2014and stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Capitol Hill hearing<\/a>, held Wednesday, examined the ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region between Eastern Europe<\/a> and western Asia that is referred to as the Republic of Artsakh by Armenians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The region is a disputed territory<\/a> that Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over for several decades, and the Azerbaijani government has blockaded the Armenians since December 2022. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned<\/a> that Armenians face dire shortages of food, medical supplies, baby formula, fuel, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n