Inter Milan midfielder, former captain of the Armenian national football team, Henrikh Mkhitaryan posted on his Facebook page about Artsakh.

“After a ten-month long siege, on 19 September, the Azerbaijani armed forces started shelling Nagorno-Karabakh.

My heart breaks when I hear about the trauma, loss and gross violations of human rights of thousands of Armenian families forcibly displaced from Nagorno Karabakh and fleeing to Armenia in a mass exodus.

The situation in which people in Nagorno Karabakh are suffering now brings back memories of the darkest hours of history. We often look back with regret on those dark pages of indiscriminate killings, ethnic cleansing and concentration camps and regret that no one did enough to stop it. We cannot bring back the victims of past crimes, but we still have time to prevent the genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh.

In the face of this horror, we need the immediate mobilization of emergency humanitarian aid through the Lachine Corridor and the deployment of international monitoring missions to stop these crimes against humanity.

It is now urgent for international leaders to stand up against ethnic cleansing and use all possible political tools to end hostilities in the region.

Children have the right to live peacefully in their homeland.”