# @serjtankian on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NLSHLpdBx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32481353-serjtankian-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-07-09T14:49:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Serj Tankian (@serjtankian) — https://gondola.cc/serjtankian

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‼️ #ICYMI, a corrupt and complicit unitednations has allowed 👀 #COP29, the most consequential #climatechange conference in the world, to be hosted in #Azerbaijan🇦🇿 - a genocidal petro-state under an authoritarian family regime that violently suppresses media, activists, the LGBTQ+ community, and many other groups that unclimatechange invites.

presidentaz controls the media, education, and NGOs, while Azerbaijanis remain some of the poorest in the region without free elections❌, free press❌, or supportive infrastructure❌. Even the healthcare system 🧑🏻‍⚕️🚫 lacks background on climate change and its health effects, which ravage the local population. Anyone trying to 🗣️ protest or expose these issues threatens the ruling regime and faces surveillance, harassment, abuse by law enforcement, and arbitrary detainment. 🚨

The danger of accepting #cop29azerbaijan is compounded by #greenwashing ongoing #genocide against neighboring #Armenians. Even the land that cop29_azerbaijan is soliciting investments to “develop” as a “Green Energy Zone” is #Artsakh 🇦🇲 (Nagorno-Karabakh, by the colonizers) - Armenian ancestral land which Azerbaijan recently ethnically cleansed of over 150,000 indigenous Armenians. 🆘

With the help of COP29, Azerbaijan 🤑 hopes to fund the destruction and re-appropriation of the significant Armenian cultural heritage🗿 in the region, which serves a #nationalist agenda of fabricating historical narratives that claim #Armenia is #WesternAzerbaijan to justify 🔫 bloody land dispossession that makes the ruling family richer.💰

Let this be the LAST STRAW for a COP that ❌ neglects human rights, 🙈 greenwashes genocide, and 💸 funds fossil fuels. Send a message to hopeful COP29 attendees and the UNFCCC secretariat to #boycott #cop29aze and advocate for changing the venue to the alternate location in Bonn, Germany, towards a fully virtual platform that is greener and more accessible. ✅

To act now, 👀 scan the QR code or find the link👆🏼in our armorcoalition Linktree. Share widely. 🫡

#StopCOP29Baku #stopgreenwashing #humanrightsviolations #changethevenue #noclimatejusticewithoutsocialjustice #freegubad #freearmenianpows

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