Azerbaijani servicemen tortured and killed 19 Armenian prisoners of war after the end of the recent Nagorno Karabakh war, Artak Zeynalyan, who represents the interests of the captives and POWs in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), said on social media today.
The Union of Journalists of Armenia congratulates all journalists and the representatives of all media outlets on World Press Freedom Day, wishing unobstructed activities and success in their careers.
If I knew what would be the consequences, I would take any measures to prevent what later happened. I just left to let those people build the country of their dreams. I could not think that they dreamed about something else, or that they would be so incompetent. I could not possibly imagine such a disgrace. And let me reiterate, I firmly believed that the country should have taken a slightly different turn, and please do not question that. But that such devastating consequences would those “dmb-dmb-hoo” chants have…
Amidst the memorials to other genocides in this chilly and rainy month, we pause on April 24 to remember the 1915 genocide of a million and half Armenians. We are also historical witnesses to the hundreds of thousands of other ethnic and religious minorities killed in the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, we remember the Greek, Assyrian and other victims. The state-sponsored Young Turk mass deportations and killings were part of a long historical pattern of inequality, injustice, prejudice, discrimination, repression and massacres by an authoritarian regime. It should be noted that the Turkish leadership’s ethnic and religious persecution predated and postdated 1915.
According to the pastor, the Azerbaijani military servicemen first threatened him with their weapons, and then two of them pulled him and tried to take him to move to the trench in the direction of the Azerbaijani position by force. During all this time, Azerbaijani constantly cursed and threatened the pastor.
168.am’s correspondent sat down for an interview with Member of the German Bundestag (Christian Democratic Union), Vice-Chair of the Germany-South Caucasus Parliamentary Friendship Group and President of the German-Armenian Forum Albert Weiler.
Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.
We remember our ancestors’ bleak and bloody days more than a century ago. All the while, we pursue plans for our children’s future lives and a better tomorrow.
Turkey, as a major investor in Azerbaijan, will definitely demand its share from that country for the large-scale assistance offered during the second war against Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), a Yerevan-based political analyst said today, warning of the possible impact on the regional context.
In November 2020 Armenian human rights advocate Ms. Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte, who is a former refugee from Baku and lives in the United States of America, informed the Human Rights Defender about an important Initiative spearheaded by her and her Foundation (www.Astvatsaturian.org).
