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Nagorno Karabakh\u2019s human rights ombudsman by its National Assembly last May,\u00a0lawyer Ruben Melikyan was has since went about documenting the more egregious atrocities committed during the April war, compiled in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ombudsnkr.am\/en\/docs\/Report_PUBLIC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report<\/a> that he presented in Europe and the United States in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/armen_reporter\/status\/842135798359171072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foreign Policy<\/a> and elsewhere Melikyan stressed the need for international human rights groups, such as the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty, to visit Karabakh to be able to prepare on the ground independent assessments of the developments there, and help break the \u201cvicious circle\u201d of violent incidents.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/sitesearch\/karabakh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights Watch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/search\/?q=karabakh&amp;sort=date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amnesty<\/a> reports from Karabakh from the early 1990s constitute key independent assessments of the Karabakh war from a human rights perspective. Since then both groups have largely ignored Karabakh, with their regional focus on events in Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan. More recently, HRW\u2019s South Caucasus researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/node\/72826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was barred<\/a> from visiting Azerbaijan, as part of a wider crackdown on human rights and civil society groups in that country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Human Rights Watchdogs Invited to Karabakh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2017\/03\/21\/human-rights-watchdogs-invited-to-karabakh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Human Rights Watchdogs Invited to Karabakh - 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