During the brutal Burundi civil war which claimed 300,000 lives, Marguerite Barankitse risked her own to rescue around 30,000 children from persecution, CNN reported.
If you happen to be in Yerevan in July, don’t be surprised if a stroll down the street one day results in you getting absolutely drenched in water. Celebrated 14 weeks after Easter, Vardavar is an ancient pagan Armenian water festival where unsuspecting passersby are doused with water by children and teenagers who are already soaked themselves.
I consider this meeting is an act of forgiveness of the aggressor. Negotiations to be launched in Vienna create a precedent for the April war to be resumed every month, as violation of negotiations by Azerbaijan can’t be restored without additional preconditions.
“We all know, that presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have repeatedly met with participation of mediators, and those meetings gave no result. Everything remained the same as it used to,” Skakov said.
Two months shy of discharge, 19-year-old Private Kyaram Sloian reportedly died when he stayed by an injured comrade during the Azerbaijani assault on the Karabakhi district of Martakert. He was killed and allegedly beheaded, though details remain unclear. Azerbaijan denies responsibility for the beheading.
Pope Francis will visit Armenia on June 24. The official welcoming ceremony will be held at Zvartnots International Airport after which Pope Francis will visit the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Press Service of the Armenian Presidential Administration informed.
Basically, the variety of local conflicts that sooner or later can trigger the 3rd World War are of 3 kinds. The first and foremost are the conflicts where one side is more or less right, while the opposite one is more or less wrong. Western Sahara, for example, that for 50 years unsuccessfully trying to become an independent state under the name of Democratic Republic of Western Sahara has every moral, historic and demographic right to separate from Morocco.
On May 12 the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia Arman Tatoyan met with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland in Strasbourg.
According to Alexander Rar, member of Russian Valdai Discussion club, Germany intends to use its presidency in OSCE to make European Neighborhood safer, by strengthening OSCE tools. Rar also touched upon the possibility of deploying OSCE peacekeeping mission on the conflict zones.
“Don’t buy into false information and fictitious events. Keep clean the parliamentary agendas and don’t let the Azerbaijani propaganda penetrate there. If you are looking for those responsible for the Khojaly events, look for them in Azerbaijan.”
