#artsakh
From earlier this week, PolGeoNow’s subscriber map of territorial control in Azerbaijan and Armenia’s war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region has been updated to show the front lines as known at the time the new peace deal went into effect.
This PolGeoNow map was also used as the source for a map that appears in this week’s edition of The Economist magazine.
More info: https://www.polgeonow.com/2020/11/nagorno-karabakh-peace-agreement-control-map.html
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For our subscribers: Updated map of territorial control in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where Azerbaijan has captured sizeable chunks of territory from the Armenia-backed, self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh.
More info: https://www.polgeonow.com/2020/10/nagorno-karabakh-control-map-update.html
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When I visited the United States Holocaust Museum for the first time, I was struck deeply by one wall with absolutely nothing on it, except for this quote:
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Hitler often used it to cite how history would forget about his “final solution”, as they didn’t remember the Armenian genocide, did they?
My family is in America for the sole reason that the first Armenian genocide drove them out. My grandmother knows nothing of what happened to her cousins and aunts and uncles, and still, to this day, the Armenian genocide is not recognized by Turkey.
It’s happening again. The Azerbaijan and Armenian conflict over Artsakh, an area that Azerbaijan claims is theirs, but is inhabited heavily by Armenians, has been restarted, and the people living there are in serious danger, as Turkey is now lending their military aid to Azerbaijan as well, while the rest of the world is turned the other way.
I know we’re all so fatigued from the shitshow that has been 2020, and how difficult it can be to comprehend yet another tragedy, but if you have a moment, please just educate yourself on what’s happening in Armenia and Artsakh, educate a friend, and take a look at the some of the resources I’ll link below, I would be so grateful. Don’t let history annihilate my people again.
Good morning world. Just a reminder that Azerbaijan literally opened a dead Armenians theme park last month.
Parents brought their primary school-age kids to play with models of dying Armenian soldiers, helmets from actual dead Armenian soldiers, and even practice strangling an Armenian themselves.
‘War trophies park’ in Baku sparks controversy domestically and abroad
Erdogan is facist scum for outright supporting Azerbaijan, but are we going to just ignore that no other country is benefiting from this conflict more than Russia? Not only did they create the issue by first colonising the Caucasus and then declaring Artsakh part of Azerbaijan during the soviet period, but now conveniently have a military base within Armenia (right next to its border with Georgia) while also providing 40% percent of Azerbaijan’s military equipment
I was recently inspired to write a song for the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh). These people have lived on those lands for thousands of years. They have struggle but also great beauty written on their forheads. The whimsical appropriation of land by an empire (Stalin) placed them under Azerbaijan. They have since gained their independence and have lived a prosperous existence for the last 20 or so years. I do not believe in wars and ultimately borders but i deeply believe in self determination and life without oppression. Therefor it is time for the world to recognize them as the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh). - Serj Tankian
Translated Lyrics (English)
We’ve always lived on these lands,
Reaped and Harvested these fields,
Generations sprung from your rivers,
Children born from your mountains,
The public mask of tradition,
The struggle for liberation or death,
The enemy’s gaze at your terrain,
Our smiles at your bosom,
At your bottomless will.
We’re going to sing with our fists
With the tricolor flag of justice,
Humanitarian love of peace
With the holy blessing of a child’s face,
We are going to prevail with culture
We are going to prevail with culture
We are going to prevail by being Armenian.
Armenia, Armenians and our Armenian brothers and sisters in Artsakh, although headed into a brighter future are constantly reminded of the bleak and dark past. Sometimes the present seems to resemble the past all too well. One thing that is most certainly the same is the fire in the people of Artsakh that burns for freedom. And that will never change, or be broken.
Photographs by Giorgi Tsagareli of Armenians in Artsakh(Nagorno-Karabakh)
1.Protest meeting, with local police on the Armenian citizens’ side, Stepanakert, 1989.
2. Armenian school, set-up by an Armenian couple from Lebanon – Shusha, 1994.
3.Funeral of an Armenian soldier – Stepanakert, 1994.
4.Boy with a toy gun in a ruined building – Stepanakert, 1994.
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