Գեգ ֍ 🇦🇲

Guitarist/Vocalist/Songwriter for The Cosmic Alliance

[MajToure999 @MajToure]

People calling for “Civil War.”

You’ve never been shot at or sent rounds to anything living.

Much less been in an ACTUAL war.

Shut the fuck up.

[Prince du Karabaque @hayqmets]

🇦🇲🇹🇷 Nikol Pashinyan: "The international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not among our foreign policy priorities today. This is the official position."

[AYF West @ayfwest]

Thank you to our vigilant community, whose support enabled our AYF members to facilitate two successful Emergency Relief Centers in Pasadena and Encino. In unpredictable times, one thing remains certain — Armenians are always ready to unite. We are especially grateful to our AYF members for keeping the centers active around the clock, ensuring aid and resources reached those in need. Most of all, thank you to our heroic firefighters and emergency responders for protecting our community and easing the pain of the losses we endured.

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[AYF West @ayfwest]

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[𝙇𝘽𝙕  @losblancoszone]

VINÍCIUS JR VILLIAN ARC STARTS NOW. https://t.co/CA4nbjp42Q

[Eduardo Camavinga @Camavinga]

FOOTBALL POLITICS ❌

My brother you are the best player in the world and no award can say otherwise. Love you my bro ❤️

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

9️⃣ @KMbappe 9️⃣
#WelcomeMbappé

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

🏆 ¡SOMOS LOS #CHAMP15NS DE EUROPA! 🏆

[Ruben Vardanyan @RubenVardanyan_]

Global Humanitarian and Business Leader, Ruben Vardanyan, Demands Immediate and Unconditional Release of All Armenian Prisoners

Yerevan, Armenia, April 19, 2024 – The family of illegally detained philanthropist, Ruben Vardanyan, announced today that he entered into a hunger strike to demand the immediate and unconditional release of himself and the other Armenian prisoners illegally held in Baku.

The hunger strike began on April 5, 2024, following repeated requests by Vardanyan and counsel to provide a fair and transparent trial in a timely manner in line with international legal standards.  Suspiciously his hunger strike began, his family’s regular phone calls with him have been cut off, in clear violation of all international norms. The original trial slated for January was extended without cause to May.

Last September, armed forces of the government of Azerbaijan invaded the Armenian autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, triggering the exodus of the 120,000 inhabitants of the region. During the plight of the refugess, Vardanyan and 7 other former officials were arrested and now face spurious politically motivated charges.  They are all political prisoners.

“I am deeply concerned about the health and well-being of my father,” said David Vardanyan, one of Mr. Vardanyan’s sons.  “For nearly 200 days, my family has not seen my father.  We have had absolutely no contact with him since he launched his hunger strike on April 5th.”

Vardanyan’s hunger strike tragically coincides with the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide which will occur on April 24th demonstrating how Armenians continue to be targets of ethnic cleansing and are still targeted for persecution around the world.
Ruben Vardanyan is a loving husband and a father of four. He is also an influential Armenian business leader, social entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Together with his partners from around the world, he has driven more than $1.5 billion toward advancing economic development, addressing humanitarian challenges, and supporting global education initiatives.

A former State Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from November 2022-February 2023, Mr. Vardanyan has been charged with false accusations, held in conditions against international law, and faces a trial that will not be up to international standards, especially regarding access of international observers to the proceedings.  In addition, Mr. Vardanyan’s case has been separated from the other seven political prisoners, raising questions about whether he in particular is being politically targeted.

“The illegal detention of Ruben and the other former leaders of Artsakh is an egregious abuse of human rights and the international justice system and must be ended,” said Paul Polman, Selection Committee member of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative co-founded by Ruben Vardanyan. “The irony of this entire situation is that Azerbaijan has been selected to host COP 29 in a blatant attempt to “greenwash” their international reputation. COP has a major focus on the interconnectivity of climate change and human rights at a time when they are abusing both in plain sight”.

Mr. Vardanyan’s family demands that:

1. All illegally detained ethnic Armenian prisoners, including Ruben Vardanyan should be released immediately and unconditionally.

2. Should the illegal trials proceed, they must happen before the prisoners’ detention orders expire in May, must meet global legal standards, and international observers and media must be allowed to attend.

3. The Azeri government must allow immediate access of the International Red Cross to assess the wellbeing of Ruben and the other prisoners. The family’s access to telephone calls with Mr. Vardanyan must be restored.

4. Any peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan must include the release of all ethnic Armenian political prisoners.

5. COP 29 should not proceed in Azerbaijan without these steps occurring.

[Madrid Xtra @MadridXtra]

Jude Bellingham x Zinedine Zidane. 🥶

[charchaf @charchaf2]

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[Nara @nmatini]

💔💔💔
This is 8-year-old Arthur from Chartar village of #NagornoKarabakh. He's among 30,000 Armenian children who, after 9 months of suffering under genocidal #ArtsakhBlockade, were violently expelled by Azerbaijan from their homeland.

You can see the raw pain & trauma... I hope he reunites with his friends... #SanctionAzerbaijan
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[Գեգ ֍ 🇦🇲 @GregoryBalalian]

Community notes cooked his ass

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

We, as the Turkish nation, are the only people on earth who have not committed racism throughout history,”

claims Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

[HovikM #FreeArmenianPOWs 🇦🇲 ✝️ @HovikYerevan]

Why is everything so silent?

We're seeing very little comprehensive quality journalism on the hellish situation in Stepanakert prior to the exodus, compared with the stories I'm hearing from survivors directly. And I'm someone who makes an active effort to learn as much as possible.

Compared to what is being printed about Palestine/Israel, I guess Armenian lives truly mean nothing?

Imagine 9 months of blockade/siege, then a gruesome war when you're abandoned by everyone (even your kin in Armenia, at least Armenia's government), then the excruciating exodus.

There are no official statistics from the Sep 19-20 war, except for the initial reports. After that, government institutions stopped functioning. Many families have loved ones who are lost without a trace... They don't know if their loved one is hiding still somewhere in the forest, or maybe dead in a ditch, or perhaps was burned alive in the gasoline explosion, or taken prisoner by Baku...

Just the hellish episode of the gasoline explosion is infuriating. I'm hearing that people were left to their own devices to desperately gain access to the gasoline so they could flee. Some people drilled holes in the pipes or containers to gain access to the fuel quicker. Lots of fuel was spilled on the ground & wasted. People describe that the building where the gasoline was stored had so much fume built up, that they got sick after taking one breath in there.

In reality, I think the situation is so traumatic that many people are consciously suppressing the memories. Also, journalists have so much material to cover, that they are probably focusing on the story of people's humanitarian situation post-exodus, rather than the conditions that forced these people to leave their homeland of millennia, just like that, with only the clothes on their back.

Yesterday, I met a father who lost his son in the 2020 war. He had the option of his son being buried in Yerablur (in Yerevan) but instead he opted to bury him in their family cemetery in Artsakh, so they could be closer and would be able to visit the cemetery every day and water the plants and clean the gravesite. I can't imagine the pain this father went through, when he abandoned Artsakh. I can't imagine the pain he's going through now, everyday.

I sometimes think I'm getting closer to feeling what Komitas was going through and I honestly can't handle it. What about those who are desperately still seeking housing for their family members in Armenia where rent prices have skyrocketed? What about people who had a family member or multiple of them perish?

[charchaf @charchaf2]

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[Krista Marina @kristamarina_]

if this ain’t the truth