Hello Gentle Readers
I have taken the liberty of including in this post the writing of a good Armenian friend Mariam Ghazaryan.
At the present time, Mariam's country, my former home, has come under attack from the forces of Azerbaijan and mercenaries hired by President Erdogan of Turkey.
Please read the text carefully. Dont dismiss it out of hand or believe everything that is written. Do your own checks into the facts.
Armenia wants peace, Armenia wants and needs your support. For too long Armenia has been ignored by the global commumity.
Ex colleagues and friends who Lena and I worked with in Yerevan have had husbands, brothers and sons called up to defend their homeland. Remember that when you read her text below.
Important Facts.
1. Azerbaijan admitted, they started the war. They attacked both Armenia and Artsakh on Sunday.
2. Erdogan sent thousands of terrorists from Free Syrian Army to fight against Armenia and Artsakh with a salary of $1500 per month.
3. There is no doubt Turkey convinced Aliyev to attack Armenia & Artsakh. Their "komandos" division is fighting against our army. Turkish F-16 hit Armenian SU-25 in the territory of the Republic of Armenia. Turkey is sending more military assistance to Azerbaijan right now without consulting with NATO. Azerbaijan is not in the NATO alliance. Is it legal, is it ok for Turkey to get involved in other conflicts?
Turkey announced about full support to #Azerbaijan
4. Donald Trump supports Erdogan.
5. The drones bombing the civilians (schools, apartment buildings far from the military bases) have been active since Sunday.
6. Many civilians have been killed including children.
7. Terrorist mercenaries fighting for Azerbaijan are raping women and plunder stores, impose Shariah laws in Azerbaijani villages. They are extremely disappointed they are supporting Shia Moslems, they had thought they were going to help Turkey. They encourage the others not to come and fight in Azerbaijan as they fighting is too intense and too many have died the first day (about 80).
8. Social media in Azerbaijan has been banned since Sunday. The population in Azerbaijan doesn't want to fight for Artsakh, a land which doesn't belong to them. Many people got arrested as they said they don't want a war with Armenia.
9. Azerbaijan deploys not only mercenaries but other ethnic minorities living in Azerbaijan such as Talish, Avar, etc. got killed. These ethnic minorities are extremely unhappy to go and fight for a place like Artsakh and they have protests from time to time. For the dictator, Aliyev, it is quite convenient to send them to fight and die in Artsakh. No minorities, no problems.
10. In less than one day thousands of Armenian volunteers expressed desire to go to the frontline including young girls and women. 13-14 year-old boys argue with their parents that they can't go to fight. WE WILL ALL DEFEND OUR MOTHERLAND!
11. Martial law is announced in #Armenia and men aged 18-55 can't leave Armenia. But nobody wants to leave Armenia! Even more the Armenians from France, the USA, Syria and Lebanon are trying to find a way to go and fight for Artsakh. Hundreds of them are on their way.
12. Since Sunday everyone is collecting clothes, food, medicine, loading them into trucks sending it all to Artsakh. We are united like never before. Every single individual in Armenia is helping Artsakh.
13. A pregnant woman was injured by the Azeries but she is safe now and gave birth to a boy named Monte.
14. Armenia received no support or help from other countries
15. This conflict with the density of fire has been unprecedented in the history of the region
And finally "At the end we'll remember not the words of our enemy, but the silence of our friends" ;)
ABOUT ARTSAKH
First off the name of the region is Artsakh, NOT Nagorno Karabakh.
Second off it is a historic Armenian territory which Joseph Stalin had made a part of Soviet Azerbaijan in 1921.
Note* Azerbaijan is a new country created in 1918 and the name of historic Iranian region of Azerbaijan was appropriated by them (like Macedonia).
In 1991 the Soviet Union stopped to exist and all the countries declared their independence from the USSR which doesn't exist any more. Hence, Artsakh can't be a part of Soviet Azerbaijan.
Third off, Artsakh has never ever been a part of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan neither in 1918-1920 (it was governed by the Armenian National Council), nor since 1991.
The people of Artsakh have their human right for self-determination and they chose to join mother Armenia in 1988.
As a response to their peaceful protests (asking Kremlin to let them join the Armenian SSR) the Armenians were massacred in Sumgait industrial town in Azerbaijan. In 1990 in Baku there were pogroms and the Armenians were attacked, massacred and finally they had to leave the city which they had built. They became refugees going to the USA, Russia, and Armenia but life was tough here after 1988 earthquake and during the war, so most of them left Armenia. Armenia unlike Azerbaijan is not mentioning anything about those people. I do remember them, their poverty, sadness of loss of their home, job. Baku had no doctors left after the deportation of the Armenians as the doctors there were all Armenian.
The war broke out in 1991 when Azerbaijan started the deportation of the Armenian population of Artsakh. My both great grandmothers had to leave their homes in Gandzak (Gyanja) Northern Artsakh where they were born, their ancestors were born...
Azerbaijan lost the war in 1994.
Artsakh was 76.4 % Armenian populated before the war
Azerbaijan is a loser country. They had mercenaries from Afghanistan, Chechnya and many other places... But many of them left the battlefield as they realized it was not a religious conflicts. The Armenians were simply defending their families and ancestral homes.
Azerbaijan doesn't need Artsakh. For the dictator president Ilham Aliyev Artsakh is a matter or principle, pride. Besides he needs to feed his population extremely discontent of him, with lies, with an illusion of an enemy.
Most importantly Armenia didn't start this new war. Armenia was attacked by Azerbaijan under the strong influence of Turkey (ISIS).
The innocent population is suffering badly as today the Turkish-Azeri army was shelling the civilians in the cities of Stepanakert, Martakert... and numerous villages.
A child with her grandmother was killed.
Where is the world? How long are we going to bear the "cancer" of this planet named Turkey?!
Oh, I forgot to mention Turkey didn't exist until the 11th century. This is when they appeared, they massacred the Armenians, the Greeks, the Assyrians. They appropriated their culture, they turned churches into mosques (remember Hagia Sophia?).
I am attaching the photo of Ptolemy World Map (circa 150A.D.).
In our region there is the huge kingdom of Armenia, the Georgian Kingdoms and Caucasian Albania, a Christian kingdom which stopped to exist as they converted to Islam and lost their identity.
Turkey wants to continue its genocidal policy of the annihilation of the Armenian people.
#armenia #artsakh #azerbaijan #turkey
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