My new academic article has been published in the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies.
Legal and Political Aspects of the De-Armenization of Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Forced Displacement or Voluntary Exodus?
My grandma's Armenian father & Cypriot Greek mother...
Surviving the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman empire in 1915, her father escaped from Musa Dagh to Cyprus on a French boat.
After 69 years, he & his wife were killed in their bed by Turks in 1974.
Baku has announced its plan to settle 140K Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh until 2026. Evidently, they will settle Azerbaijanis in the houses of forcibly displaced Armenians and appropriate their property.
Note that the maximum N of Azerbaijanis that ever lived in NK was 40K.
Even in the post-war situation with serious external security and PTSD problems,
#Armenia
remains number 5 safest country in the world to walk alone at night.
#publicsafety
#internalsecurity
For those who don't recognize the guy with whom the Azerbaijani "environmental activist" has a picture - it's Ramil Safarov, who axed & decapitated an Armenian 26-year old officer during a NATO-PfP English training programme in his sleep in Budapest in 2004.
@UNHumanRights
Dear UN, as your former staff, former Armenian diplomat and current active member of expert community & civil society, I am trying to understand what it is that Arm can do and not doing if Azerb is violating customary IHL keeping 120,000 in blockade and blackmailing Arm?
I am waiting for at least one Georgian expert or civil society, who would express a position against Azerbaijan's military aggression against Armenia and ethnic cleansing of Armenians.
Why doesn't Israel recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey? Why does Israel supply armaments to Azerbaijan that are used to commit ethnic cleansing and military aggression against Armenians?
Erdogan, who is committing genocide against the Kurds and who holds the world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his regime, is the last person who can preach morality to us.
The IDF, which is the most moral army in the world, is fighting to eliminate the most
It hasn't been a week when Azerbaijan finalized ethnic cleansing of 100,000+ Armenians from their historical homeland & biggest enclave that existed in the region, it is now making territorial claims & demanding enclaves from Armenia without any legal document proving its claims.
Armenia appealed to Russia to return approximately $400 mln paid to Moscow for weapons that were never delivered. However, Russia refuses to return the money and refuses to deliver the weapons.
After the footage of the murder of unarmed
#Armenian
PoWs, the
#Azerbaijani
prosecutor announced that an investigation had been opened. Given previous experience, criminals will either not be found and punished or will be rewarded.
#WarCrimes
This video posted by
@atatoyan
's is a proof that killing 4 children, women & other civilians by Azerbaijan's armed forces was not an accident but was a planned ethnic cleansing & violation of international humanitarian law targeting civilians & emptying villages of its population
1. I received messages from 3 prominent international law professors over the last week, very conservative lawyers who would always oppose the overuse of terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing".
They wrote to me saying Nagorno-Karabakh case is a classical ethnic cleansing.
This is a humiliating legal defeat for Azerbaijan.
@CIJ_ICJ
provisional measures heavy obligations in front of AZ - it must ensure conditions for the return of Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh!!!
Azerbaijan is not going to get away with ethnic cleansing. Its impunity is over.
READ HERE: the full text of the
#ICJ
Order indicating provisional measures in the case concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (
#Armenia
v.
#Azerbaijan
)
We feel upset with Israel because it supplies 87% of armaments used against Armenians by Azerbaijan, in spite of our shared tragedy of genocides. Nevertheless, Hamas uses terrorist methods & commits war crimes against women & civilians that cannot have any justification.
We are shocked by the violence between the Palestinians and Israel and targeting of civilian population. We express condolences to relatives of victims and speedy recovery to those wounded. We join international calls to stop the violence.
Azerbaijan has been doing the same as Milosevic was doing at the end of 1990s.
#NagornoKarabakh
conflict is the closest to the
#Kosovo
conflict. I have worked in Kosovo in 2006-2008 I have made comparisons in several articles.
24 years ago, 45 innocent women, men & children were deliberately & mercilessly massacred in Reรงak by Milosevicโs genocidal regime.
The barbaric acts in Reรงak & all around Kosovo, brought the democratic world together to put an end to these crimes.
Today we honor their memory.
@KenRoth
Now I see why my
@Kennedy_School
had refused you fellowship. Would you check your knowledge before tweeting? Armenia is ahead Ukraine and Georgia by its rankings of democracy. Check
@freedomhouse
. And Armenia is getting invaded and penalized by autocratic countries.
1. In Sept 2022, when Azerbaijan launched a major military offensive in sovereign Armenia, near resort town Jermuk, its armed forces stripped, mutilated & killed 4 Armenian military servicewomen...๐
Recognition of Kosovo was complicated for Armenia mostly due to Nagorno-Karabakh issue but Russian factor also played a role.
I have advocated for Kosovo's recognition since Feb 2008, when I was working in Pristina. ARM is contributing to KFOR, our FM has met Kosovo FM.
The national football team of Armenia will host the national team of Kosovo in a friendly match in Yerevan, the Armenian Football Federation has announced.
Armenia doesn't recognize Kosovo yet, but has recently moved away from the Russian orbit.
This is the grey wolf sign. It is the paramilitary wing of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party, an organisation banned in France and other places in Europe for their radical acts, including, but not limited to armenophobia.
1100 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, including 270 children left on the roads in winter cold since yesterday and can't return home. due to the blockade of the only corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Jewish public figure Lapshin is explaining why the attack on the Jewish synagogue in Yerevan is apparently fabricated in order to stigmatise Armenia and harm Armenian-Jewish relations.
#Amnesty
International's biased report on
#warcrimes
in
#Ukraine
has caused outrage. When Amnesty published an inaccurate report on degrading, beheadings & mutilation of
#PoWs
by
#Azerbaijan
&
#Armenia
in 2020, based on false parity & distorted statistics, the world didn't notice
An Azerbaijani woman displays the "Grey Wolves" gesture, representing how, in Azerbaijan, the general population perceives the process of integrating Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh into Azerbaijani society. It was never meant to be integration but subjugation or ethnic cleansing
The
@UN
must be allowed access to deliver urgent humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians trapped & helpless in the Gaza Strip.
I appeal to the international community to mobilize immediate humanitarian support for this effort.
1. Today Armenia in accordance with the Statute of the International Court of Justice has informed the Court about the blockade of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan and the violation of the rights of the Artsakh population.
This moved me very deeply. I am going to cry now. Humanity of Azerbaijani police officer to a kitten in an ethnically cleansed (from human Armenians) ghost city.
Iโm sorry but Yerevan has set the standard for Junior Eurovision production insanely high. This is practically indistinguishable from adult Eurovision.
#JESC2022
I went to Azerbaijan's site for "reintegration" to see what is the plan offered to Armenians forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
There is no even single word of explanation, it just offers to apply and requires personal data. Total trap.
Sorry, but this is too much. It is discrimination based on ethnicity or nationality. You cannot fight for human rights through violating human rights. You may dislike Russian politics and even people but you cannot place collective responsibility on all Russian people.
We believe that allegations against him are fabricated. Azerbaijan is ranked as one of the worst countries in Eurasia for independence of judiciary and fair trials, has political prisoners, practices arbitrary detention and transnational repression, along with and disinformation.
68-year-old Vagif Khachatryan from Nagorno Karabakh was kidnapped by Azerbaijan when he was trying to reach Armenia with the help of the Red Cross to get medical treatment. Now he is undergoing a judicial farce and humiliation in Baku. His only fault is that he is Armenian...
Jews were having a wedding in the Nazi ghetto: the pictures shown by Baku at the UN Security Council cannot deny the fact of humanitarian disaster in
#NagornoKarabakh
1. 4 Armenian servicewomen were mutilated, degraded & killed by Azerbaijan's armed forces in sovereign Armenia in Sept 2022.
International actors urged us not to post horrific videos out of respect to the victims & families. But Azerbaijani telegram channels had circulated them๐
We have almost forgotten about the traumas of the 1990s. AzeGov had the power to resolve this issue peacefully and not carry over this human tragedy into future years. But they decided to add another 30 years.
Vลux du Prรฉsident de la Rรฉpublique
@EmmanuelMacron
aux Forces armรฉes
โก๏ธ "Les Balkans, l'Armรฉnie mobilisent notre attention et ont conduit ร rรฉhausser notre posture et ร faire des choix historiques, en particulier en ce qui concerne l'Armรฉnie."
Sumgait is the Azerbaijani city where the first massacre of Armenians was committed in 1988, in response to the peaceful movement of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh for their self-determination in line with the Soviet legislation.
Here is the video footage in which Turkey's Islamist dictator openly threatens Israel militarily, while admitting the deployment of forces to conflicts in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.
1.
#Armenian
and
#American
flags were raised in the site of the metallurgic factory under construction with an American investment in a border area of
#Armenia
.
#Azerbaijan
has been targeting the site for a week now, repeatedly shelling it.
One of the main issues now what Azerbaijan is going to do with Amaras (4-5th century) and Gandzasar (13th) Armenians monasteries in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan has destroyed, distorted or appropriated the ARM monasteries in previously captured areas.
@UNESCO
#culturalheritage
Allowing a big country to bully a smaller one, to simply invade it and take its territory, is going to be open season, not just in Europe but around the world.
@SecBlinken
, August 8, 2022
#HumanRights
-based
#diplomacy
Dear international journalists,
You need to treat us with more respect. You send a message asking for an urgent interview at a certain time, I cancel a meeting, re-organize my day, and then you disappear. You ruin my busy schedule for nothing. We are already overwhelmed.
So,
@CharlesMichel
, only Russia is responsible for ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, & Azerbaijan is an innocent partner to the EU? Whose rights should Azerbaijani government protect after 99% of Armenians have been forcibly displaced?
#Armenians
lived in
#NagornoKarabakh
for 3000 years. They are indigenous/autochthonous in their homeland. They were subjected to 2big & 2small wars, massacres & war crimes, blockades, sieges & starvation.
They were resilient but they are human & they reached their edge.
Azerbaijani state-run media reports from an Armenian class at AZ's University of Languages.
"I wanted to apply my hatred for Armenians to teaching this language," says the instructor.
"I chose this language out of hatred, not love," says a student.
Peaceful Azerbaijan.
Since Armenia started diversifying its security through enhanced partnership with India & France, expressed aspirations to exit CSTO & apply for EU membership, Russia authorized Azerbaijan to escalate its territorial claims to Armenia.
Their aim is to turn Armenia to Gaza.
Today government of Armenia adopted a decision to ratify Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and applied to Constitutional Court of RA to enable it.
I still cannot understand why EU air bridge can fly to Gaza or Afghanistan but not to Nagorno-Karabakh to deliver humanitarian aid to starving Armenians in July-Sept 2023. Did EU think Talibans, Hamas, Israelโs government would not target it but Azerbaijanโs government would?
A new EU humanitarian air bridge flight has just arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan.
It brings vital supplies to help survivors of the recent earthquakes:
๐ Medical items for
@WHOAfghanistan
and
@ICRC_af
โบ๏ธ Tents, blankets and winter items donated to
@HI_federation
by ๐ช๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐ช
Hungary has become a major country blocking the consensus in the EU for many important decisions, including those for Armenia. It is increasingly allying with Azerbaijan, Russia & Turkey. Is it hedging & deviating from the EU values and principles.
Azerbaijan is trying to prove to international community that they want Armenians to return to Karabakh and are ready to ensure their normal life.
At the same time, they destroy all ARM symbols and put threatening AZ symbols at every step to assert their hegemony & militarism.
The Azerbaijani government placed an iron fist monument in Stepanakert ahead of a planned military parade.
A military parade in an ethnically cleansed ghost town.
It is funny that Azerbaijani propagandists claim that no one lives in Armenia except Armenians.
If you come to the center of Yerevan, you will see that almost half of those walking on the street are expats or foreigners.
According to the head of the Workers Union of Armenia, Gagik Makaryan, around 60,000 Indian citizens currently live and work in Armenia.
"Daily, approximately 100 Indians arrive in Armenia," he said, adding that if Armenias current economic growth continues...โฌ๏ธ
If I was receiving threats to rape me from Azerbaijani & Turkish trolls, now I receive them from Armenians who have migrated to California for my criticism of their pro-Kremlin views.
Shame on you. You could not hit lower than this.
Given extensive experience of
#Armenia
in management of
#earthquakes
and other natural and man-made disasters, our geographical proximity to both
#Turkey
and
#Syria
, and our humanitarian values, Armenia sent
#rescuers
to both countries today.
Kochari, traditional group dance, just inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
#Armenia
#IntangibleHeritage
#12COM
โน๏ธ
#Aliyev
of
#Azerbaijan
stated today: Expulsion of
#Armenians
from our lands was our obligation and we achieved it.
One more proof of a systematic policy / strategy of ethnic cleansing of Armenians from their homeland? Azeris need lands without native Armenians.
For those who think I am Diaspora:
I was born & grown up in Armenia, and have lived more than half of my life in Armenia. I have only Armenian citizenship.
I have traveled to 68 and lived in 12 countries for studies, work and tourism but I eventually always return to Armenia.
#Disinformation
spread by
#Azerbaijani
diplomats made me feel ashamed for the profession of diplomat, having been 1 myself for 12 years. I remember a key message from my diplomatic trainings: "Diplomat should never lie." Apparently, AZ diplomats have received different training.
My father with a 104-year old local grandmother & a carpet knitted by her mother in Nagorno-Karabakh, in 1978.
As a historian-ethnograph-art theorist specialized in Armenian carpets, he was going to Nagorno-Karabakh for expeditions and has authored a book about Artsakh carpets.
What followed the lack of condemnation of Azerbaijan's war in tiny
#NagornoKarabakh
:
-Russia-Ukraine war;
-The Serbia-Kosovo escalation;
-Military activities by China against Taiwan.
Collapse of the world order & legitimization of use of force for "
#conflict
resolution".
A new Srebrenica is starting. After disarming, Azerbaijan will detain and / or kill most of men, abolish all self-governance institutions and I don't know what will happen to women and children. In the best case, downgrading treatment and subjugation.
โ๏ธBREAKING
@Pres_Artsakh
stmt
Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) gov has agreed in a ceasefire deal brokered by RU peacekeepers to fully disband & disarm its armed forces &remove all heavy equipment &weaponry from Artsakh.
โComplete cessation of hostilitiesโ to begin @ 1 PM LT, Sept 20
@JAMnewsCaucasus
Aren't you ashamed to publish this? Never ever dare to quote me. By the way, you are the only media in the world who quotes me without ever asking for permission, misspelling my name and title, and distorting my quotes or cutting them out of context.
Foreign Minister of the
#Netherlands
Wobke Hoekstra has said that the blockade of
#LachinCorridor
corridor will lead to a humanitarian crisis in
#NagornoKarabakh
.
He made the statement in response to questions by MPs Agnes Mulder and Don Ceder, the Federation of โฌ๏ธ
Are
#Azerbaijani
diplomats so unaware of international humanitarian & customary law that are denying the existence of the blockade of
#LachinCorridor
by showing videos of
@ICRC
vehicles transporting medicine? Are 120,000 locked up Armenians in
#NagornoKarabakh
prisoners of war?
#Azerbaijan
should not use weaponization of
#food
to starve an ethnic group either.
International community should not allow a new holodomor in the European neighborhood because its perpetrator has gas, partially its own and the rest - laundered Russian gas.
Russia must stop to use food as a weapon.
We have to convince Russia with a clear and unified voice to resume its participation in the Black Sea Grain Intitiative
#BSGI
.
My Op Ed in The
@Guardian
:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
As we mark 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, learn how you can
#StandUp4HumanRights
and help promote a world of dignity, freedom & justice for all:
"Russia's backyard?"
Unacceptable colonialist style undermining language by
@POLITICOEurope
.
Some Western language needs serious training about ethics.
This is a classical ENFORCED DISPLACEMENT and ETHNIC CLEANSING. It is NOT an evacuation NOR a voluntary exodus. Enough to white-wash it, thus becoming complicit of this crime against humanity.
#Armenians
'
#ethniccleansing
from
#NagornoKarabakh
.
1. The
#LachinBlockade
is not just about food, medicine & fuel, not a purely humanitarian issue but much deeper. The road is needed for
#NagornoKarabakh
's link with Armenia and preservation of the ethnic identity of local
#Armenians
, which is also a human right.
โWe must stand up to the forces of antisemitism, anti-Muslim bigotry and all forms of hate.โ
โ
@antonioguterres
on the need to say
#NoToHate
in the face of rising discrimination.
Georgiaโs proposed foreign agent laws gravely threaten Georgiaโs Euro-Atlantic future and the ability of Georgians to fulfill their own economic, social, and other aspirations. I call upon the Georgian Parliament to drop these proposed laws.
1. The world leaders urge immediate humanitarian access to Gaza while they allowed Azerbaijan to keep Nagorno-Karabakh in blockade for 10 months, out of which 3 months in total siege with no food & other basic supplies, leading to starvation.
Yeh, yeh... All of very peaceful and voluntary...
The father of my grandmother escaped from Musa Dagh to Cyprus on a French boat at the age of 13 after all of his family was massacred.
โ1915: The Relocationโ looks back at the events that shattered the centuries-long peaceful co-existence between Turks and Armenians. We see how, in the long shadow of World War I, the harmony of the entire Anatolian region was tested
Watch the Full Show:
#Azerbaijani
military violate the contact line, enter an area near an
#Armenian
village in
#Armenia
proper without any warning, and start shooting at ARM servicemen conducting engineering works on positions to prevent their creeping annexation.
Never ever in the history Armenia has started any military offensive against Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has initiated any large-scale or small military offensives against Armenia or Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenians have always been in the defense side.
Azerbaijani official says AZ doesn't plan to start a new war, but, "if Armenia attacks us, we won't sit quietly."
Pre-Sept. 19, AZ fabricated Armenian ceasefire violations daily. AZ claimed Armenia started the 2020 war. Of course AZ will blame Armenia for starting the next one.
Terrorists attacking Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia also killed the married couple, Lilit Israelyan (ethnic Armenian) and Vugar Huseynov (ethnic Azerbaijani), leaving their 1.5-year-old child behind.
The fuel was provided by Azerbaijan. This may be an act to prevent people to leave, keep them trapped through exploding them after starving & bombing them to subjugation.
There should be an international investigation to find out whether this was an incident or a deliberate act.
Yesterdayโs fuel depot explosion in Artsakh:
Officially 290 injured, incl dozens critical;
20 deaths with bodies;
Many missing, with witnesses estimating that over 100 people were fully burned in the fire;
A medical helicopter arrived from Armenia to evacuate the injured.
He is right. This is how a NON-Armenian carpet / rug would look like.
And the one I posted 2 days ago made in Nagorno-Karabakh, is purely Armenian. Armenian and non-Armenian carpets are very distinct. I have learned to distinguish them since childhood, from my expert father.
Azeri government media reports from Nagorno Karabakh's capital Stepanakert, showing preparations for the country's Victory day military parade. Azeri flags and emblems now hang around the capital's main square.
Today I saw Azerbaijani and pro-Azerbaijani propagandists had posted a picture from the meeting of Pashinyan and Putin to prove that Armenia remains pro-Russian.
How about this video from today?
Suddenly, both-sidist mediators & analysts, who didn't want to see the current scenarios coming & were treating us, Armenian experts warning about them as nationalists, see things in their real light. However, they fulfilled their mission of green-lighting and whitewashing.
In the same manner, Azerbaijan did not allow Armenian and French humanitarian aid to enter Nagorno-Karabakh between June and September 2023 when people were starving.
This is not an Azerbaijani event. It is a UN event, therefore Azerbaijan is obliged to invite all UN member states. And letโs not forget that Azerbaijan is hosting this event largely due to Armenia stepping down its candidacy for Azerbaijan.
With all of my life-long positive attitude to
#NATO
and
#EuropeanUnion
, their statements in relation to yesterday's unprovoked ambush in
#NagornoKarabakh
are a frustrating example of false equivalence. It's the time to acknowledge and prevent the threat of
#EthnicCleansing
.
This is a disgenuine propaganda by Turkey.
None of the Armenian authorities since 1993 restoration of our independence has made any territorial claim to Turkey.
My granda was dreaming about lost home in Musa Dagh when old & ill with fever. Does it count as a territorial claim?
Erdogan: "For years, Armenia pursued dreams related to our country's territories, but it learned its lesson with the Karabakh War and settled into its place. Israel's end will also be disappointing."
Cognitive dissonance: Citizens of a country that has started 2 big (1990s & 2020) & 2 brief (2016 & 2023) wars, many massacres & escalations, blockades (1990s & 2022-2023), accuse Armenians defending themselves & not their own government about the loss of life of Azerbaijanis.
The Avasor TV addressed the residents of Baku with the question: โDo you want to live together with the Armenians?โ
Look at the answers came out from Baku residents. It is obvious that the Azerbaijani government has prepared Azeris for fight with Armenians, not for live