France’s Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations demands to initiate criminal case against Aliyev

The Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF) petitioned to the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a demand to open a criminal case against Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

The document noted that Azerbaijan’s military actions in Nagorno-Karabakh from September 27, 2020, to October 4, 2023, led to the forced displacement of 120,000 Armenians and the loss of their centuries-old cultural heritage. Earlier, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the first prosecutor of the ICC, as well as a number of international human rights organizations, characterized these events as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

CCAF co-chairs Mourad Papazian and Ara Toranian called on the French government to approach the ICC to launch an investigation against Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.