Imagine Dragons urged to cancel Azerbaijan concert
System Of A Down's frontman is petitioning the US band to call off the gig, as a "humanitarian catastrophe" wages on in a region of the country
News By Lisa Henderson | 17 August 2023
System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian is publicly petitioning Imagine Dragons to cancel their upcoming concert in Azerbaijan, this September.
The American-Armenian musician took to social media last night (16 August) to urge Imagine Dragons to call off the Baku concert due to the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Nagorno-Karabagh – a region within Azerbaijan’s borders but dominated by ethnic Armenians.
In his post, Tankian pointed out that “Azerbaijan’s petro-oligarchic dictatorial regime was starving 120k people in Nagorno-Karabagh which is now being…
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