1,000 Days of Azerbaijani Captivity
Armenian hostages are not mere political pawns. They are husbands, fathers, sons, brothers who are barred of their right to return home. Each one embodies the resilience and strength of the Artsakh they fight for.
Speak their names, tell their stories, and advocate for their freedom. Stand for human rights. Bring Them Home.
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“President Trump may have pardoned him but the people of South Texas will not.”
— @JudgeTano running in South Texas to unseat @RepCuellar, corrupt Co-Chair of the Azerbaijan Caucus indicted for taking $600K in bribes from Azerbaijan to rig US policy against Christian Armenians
Le devoir moral a décidément le sens du timing.
150,000 Arméniens expulsé d'Artsakh. Des armes livrées par ton gouvernement au régime génocidaire du president @presidentaz qui jure de nous rayer de la carte. 111 ans de déni.
On sait très bien faire la distinction entre "l'obligation morale" et la mise en scène.
Je soumettrai au gouvernement, pour approbation lors de sa prochaine réunion, un projet de résolution visant la reconnaissance officielle du génocide arménien par le gouvernement israélien. Il s'agit d'une obligation morale et historique de reconnaître le génocide perpétré contre le peuple arménien à la fin de l'Empire ottoman. Parallèlement, il convient de condamner toute négation, minimisation ou déformation de la vérité historique.
La résolution sera ensuite soumise au vote de la Knesset.
It's remarkable how moral duty finds its schedule.
150,000 Armenians cleansed from Artsakh. Your government flowing arms to the @presidentaz regime that vows to eliminate us as a people. 111 years of denial.
We know the difference between conscience and optics.
I will bring before the Israeli government at its next meeting a proposed resolution for the official recognition by the Government of Israel of the Armenian Genocide.
Recognizing the genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in the final years of the Ottoman Empire is both a moral and historical duty.
We must also firmly condemn any denial, minimization, or distortion of the historical truth.
The resolution will subsequently be brought before the Knesset for a vote.
So basically we’re getting a Turk to help manage Armenia’s economy so that we too could have the same crippling inflation that Turkey has.
Makes absolute sense…
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan invited Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoğlu to help manage Armenia’s economy.
• Acemoğlu is a Turkish economist of Armenian origin.
Congress marks 1,000 days of Azerbaijani detention of Armenian hostages — Rep. @BradSherman, ANCA lead Capitol Hill press conference demanding immediate release. #FreeArmenianPrisoners
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1,000 Days in Azerbaijani Captivity
Armenian hostages have been illegally detained for nearly three years, far from their homeland under politically motivated charges, deprived of their freedom and fundamental rights.
We stand in solidarity with all Armenian hostages who are still held in Azerbaijan. After 1,000 days in captivity, they must not be forgotten.
Thank you, @RepYoungKim, for standing with the Armenian community on this solemn milestone. 1,000 days is 1,000 days too many. Armenian POWs & civilian hostages must be released immediately. Azerbaijan must be held accountable. #FreeArmenianPOWs
Armenian Apostolic priest - Fr. Serop Azarian - pens an open letter to South Texas faith leaders, calling out Rep. @RepCuellar for betraying persecuted Armenian Christians in Artsakh — accepting Azerbaijani bribes to rig U.S. policy - aiding and abetting Baku’s ethnic-cleansing of 150,000 Armenians from their indigenous homeland.
Fr. Serop urges Christian congregations across the Lone Star State’s 28th Congressional district to rightfully reclaim ownership of this seat from the Azerbaijani government.
No airport welcome, no VIP photo ops, no City Hall visit.
Not for Turkish dictator @RTErdogan.
Say NO to Erdogan and his genocidal sports-washing policies in the heart of LA!
The ANCA calls on US local, state, and national officials to reject @RTErdogan's attempts to sports-wash his genocidal record.
Condemn his planned visit to the USA vs. Turkey #WorldCup match at @SoFiStadium on June 25th.
- No red carpet
- No airport welcome
- No City Hall visit
- No photo ops
#BREAKING: @ANCA_DC-backed amendment led by Armenian Caucus vice chair Rep. @BradSherman calling for Azerbaijan to release Armenian POWs proceeds to full committee vote with the support of @HouseForeignGOP Chair Rep. @BrianMastFL
“If nothing else, Rubio’s visit to Armenia shows the Trump administration’s continued addiction to election interference abroad,." - James Carden, former Obama State Department advisor.
Rubio in Yerevan: A neocon in the land of Nairi
Pietro A. Shakarian
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A country where the president’s son inherited power from his father, journalists are jailed, elections universally condemned as fraudulent, and an entire indigenous population ethnically cleansed and forcefully displaced in 2023 is not a democracy - secular or otherwise.
Women’s suffrage in 1918 is nothing else than a talking point, and certainly not a track record.
Today, on May 25, Ruben Vardanyan marks his 58th birthday not with his family, not in his homeland, but as a political prisoner unlawfully imprisoned in Azerbaijan.
Illegally detained since September 27, 2023, Vardanyan has now spent more than a year and a half in captivity under fabricated charges, deprived of due process, denied proper legal access, and subjected to harsh conditions by Azerbaijan’s repressive regime.
For decades, Ruben Vardanyan dedicated his life to the Armenian nation and people. As a philanthropist, visionary, and nation-builder, he played a defining role in strengthening Armenia’s educational, cultural, and humanitarian institutions both in the homeland and throughout the diaspora.
Most importantly, in November 2022, Ruben Vardanyan assumed the role of State Minister of Artsakh during a moment of existential crisis. He stood alongside the people of Artsakh throughout the blockade and siege, refusing to abandon them when leadership, responsibility, and courage were needed most. In doing so, he became a symbol of national dignity, unity, and service.
His continued imprisonment is not only a grave injustice against one individual, but also an attack on the principles, values, and national commitment he chose to defend.
On his birthday, we do not simply honor his contributions. We stand in solidarity with him. We renew our call for justice, demand transparency and accountability, and urge the immediate release of Ruben Vardanyan and all Armenian hostages unlawfully held in Azerbaijan.
That is what state-funded election propaganda gets you.
What happened to “no foreign interference in Armenia’s upcoming elections”?
You buffoons think that you’ve accomplished something, all the while, organizations older than all your political overlords, have been doing far more with virtually no funds.
Absolutely pathetic.
The nation that was once at the forefront of democracy, is not at the inept hands of charlatans such as @ArmAmbUS and your unworthy predecessor @LilitMakunts and the final ape of the kingdom @NikolPashinyan.
Absolutely pathetic.
Of course, cause selling heavy weaponry, including kamikaze drones, long-range ballistic missiles, Barak-8, et al., are all indications of “not getting involved” in genocidal ethnic cleansing.
Never ceases to amaze me how certain people feel absolutely no shame to blatantly lie on media.
“Every liar will get their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.”
BREAKING: George Deek, Israel's Special Envoy to the Christian World, says "We never got involved or took position in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, per se", which led to the ethnic cleansing of Christian Armenians and their Churches from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
You have to admire that carefully placed "per se". The amount of heavy lifting it does for Israel's image in the Christian world would've been commendable had it not been a typical hasbara escape hatch, absolving Israel of any responsibility or accountability, and invariably collapsing under the weight of Israel's own record during that war.
In no particular order:
⁃According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), between 2016 and 2020, leading up to the 44 Day War, roughly 69% of weapons exports to Azerbaijan came from Israel, in a war that butchered 5,000 Armenian soldiers, barely adults. So neutral.
⁃The highly advanced Israeli weapons systems included loitering munitions (suicide drones) such as the IAI Harop and Elbit SkyStriker, Hermes 900 reconnaissance drones, Spike anti-tank guided missiles, and LORA surface-to-surface ballistic missiles.
⁃Israeli weapons manufacturer Aeronautics Defense Systems used a suicide drone by attacking Armenian positions during a sale presentation at the behest of Azeri officials who requested a live demonstration.
⁃Israeli military personnel trained Azeri soldiers in piloting drones.
⁃Azerbaijan supplies 65% of Israel's crude oil imports, which are pumped via the BTC pipeline through Georgia and Turkey. A clear energy security and arms agreement: you send oil, we give you weapons.
So neutral.
⁃In December 2023, Azerbaijan effectively blockaded the Lachin Corridor, the only route between Armenia and Artsakh. A starvation campaign ensued for 9 months, targeting hundreds of thousands of Armenian indigenous Christians: Food shortages, supermarket shelves emptied, families lining up for hours for a piece of bread. No fuel. No medicine. Cancer patients requiring urgent treatment were stranded. Malnutrition. Miscarriages.
George Deek was Ambassador at that time. He was there in Baku.
Did he voice concern for the besieged Christians in Artsakh? No. His country enabled it. Haaretz, an Israeli outlet, even published a bombshell report entitled "Israel's fingerprints all over the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh".
To quote the Special Christian envoy himself:
"When violence against a vulnerable minority is ignored because acknowledging it is politically inconvenient, there is a name for it: abandonment."
For Israel, the defense of the Armenian Christian presence in Artsakh was politically inconvenient.
That is why they were complicit in the ethnic cleansing of 150,000 indigenous Christian Armenians from their 2,000-year-old homeland.
@ICJ_org exposes what we already knew: #Azerbaijan’s judicial system is a SHAM. Aliyev regime cannot use language of law to legitimize unlawful detention & punishment of#Armenian hostages. Trial of Artsakh leadership is fundamentally compromised. #Artsakh#HumanRights#RuleOfLaw