This is the Horror: 3-Year-Old Leon and 6-Year-Old Gitan are Today's Collective Image of Artsakh

“I have never done anything like this, because this is pure horror—driving one mad and yet sobering...,” writes Metakse Hakobyan, a member of the Artsakh Republic’s National Assembly from the ‘Justice’ faction.

“3-year-old Leon and 6-year-old Gitan are the victims of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Republic of Artsakh for the past 7 months... Our compatriots in Armenia and the Diaspora ask every day about the situation in Artsakh...

This is no longer just a situation; these children are the collective image through which you can see the present of the Republic of Artsakh and its people... and tomorrow... for us and our children, tomorrow feels very distant... the calculations are in hours and minutes...”