Rolling Stone has published an open letter from Kim Kardashian and UCLA medical professor Dr. Eric Esrailian to Joe Biden. In the letter, Kardashian and Esrailian ask the United States president to impose sanctions on Azerbaijan due its government’s ongoing aggression against Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and beyond.

The territory has been disputed for decades. Currently, the area is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but it’s been governed for nearly 30 years — since the first Nagorno-Karabakh War — by the de facto Armenian breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The conflict reached a boiling point again in 2020, and a second Nagorno-Karabakh War broke out.

Since then, despite a cease-fire agreement, the Azerbaijani military has continued to attack Armenian soldiers and blockaded the Lachin Corridor — “ the only lifeline between the indigenous Christian Armenians of Artsakh… and the rest of the world,” according to Kardashian and Esrailian. Their letter cites a report by Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, claiming Azerbaijani aggression has crossed the line into genocide based on Article II, (c) of the 1948 Genocide Convention — “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.”

“There are no crematories, and there are no machete attacks,” Moreno writes. “Starvation is the invisible Genocide weapon. Without immediate dramatic change, this group of Armenians will be destroyed in a few weeks.”