Armenian "activist": No one dies of hunger in Karabakh

The Karabakh "activist" Artur Osipyan has called on Armenian authorities not to sow panic among the population by spreading misinformation about hunger in Karabakh.

"Let's not try to deceive the outside world and sow panic among the population by telling that people are allegedly dying of hunger in Karabakh," he said in an interview with the Armenian channel 1in.am, Caliber.Az reports. 

When asked whether there are currently any problems related to food in the zone of responsibility of Russian peacekeepers in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region and whether the rumours that some people eat enough and others starve are true, Osipyan answered that it is not true.

“To be honest, you know what the question is, the difficult situation did not arise today. These authorities have been plundering Karabakh for 30 years, and this deterioration has not happened now, the situation has always been difficult. Now these problems have increased a little. Yes, there are problems, but it is not necessary to exaggerate that supposedly people are dying of hunger in Karabakh. Yes, the situation is difficult: from the lines for bread to buying something in the store. Yes, there are such facts, but these problems are not related to the ‘blockade’. Even before that they were problems: one part lived well, while the other hardly earned their bread,” Osipyan said.