@missprivelove Amazing. I will check in at that time. 🤣 I have tickets to Sydney but my kids Christmas concert is of course on the same day. Trying to see if we can make both.
For the first time in history, Armenian culture is presented by Disney.
The latest episode of 'Mickey Mouse Funhouse' is dedicated to the traditional Armenian holiday Vardavar.
Following the recent military parade in ethnically cleansed Stepanakert, we continue to see the results of years of systematic racist indoctrination by the dictatorship in Azerbaijan. In a video circulating Azerbaijani channels, a couple is seen celebrating their big day with a hate by desecrating the Armenian flag to their car.
I am sickened that for 20 years, our foreign policy establishment has allowed the dictatorship of Azerbaijan access to *U.S. weapons* which are now being used to kill Armenian Christians. Now we’re hearing that the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh wasn’t enough & that Azerbaijan won’t stop until they’ve bisected Armenia and opened the Zangezur corridor to Turkey. TRUTH: those waivers would have never been issued without Azerbaijan’s $$ buying lots of lobbying power in D.C. It’s shocking how little attention this has received & the hypocrisy is astounding.
Israel's envoy to Azerbaijan two years ago stood in ethnically cleansed Kovsagan, just across the border with Iran, claiming Armenians were never there.
"Right here behind me there is, well, so far nothing. But as we say in Israel: where there's nothing, everything is possible."
This 68 yo man was intercepted and kidnapped by azeri forces as he was heading to armenia for open heart surgery from blockaded Artsakh. Now he stands in a sham trial over ‘war crimes’ he did not commit. Disgusting.
The trial of Vagif Khachatryan, abducted from Nagorno Karabakh, has started in Azerbaijan today. He, of course, has nothing to do with the crime, he is merely punished for being born in Nagorno Karabagh and for living on his ancestral land.
I want to make this very clear, in Azerbaijan, where the government has not changed for more than 20 years, during which 5 presidents were elected in Nagorno-Karabakh, which Freedom House rated as partially free with 37 score by all indicators, and Azerbaijan - Not Free, with 9 scores, there cannot be a fair trial, fair court and/or fair accusation.
All existing proceedings are a farce, a mockery of the European Convention and a violation of all universally accepted international norms in the context of all obligations undertaken by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan must end the treatments that degrade people’s fundamental freedoms and human dignity and release all prisoners from Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh immediately.
P. S. In the video you can see a crying man in the fake court hearing.
2/2 Illegal abduction,in flagrant violation of IHL, is now followed by publication of videos & photos showing suffering of 68-year-old civilian.
As requested by numerous int’l human rights orgs & institutions, ARM POWs & civilians still kept hostage in Baku should be released.
1/2 Sham "trial", show of complete disregard of any norms in Baku against #Armenia|n civilian, 68-year-old resident of #NagornoKarabakh who under @ICRC protection was being transported to🇦🇲 for heart surgery &was abducted at illegal checkpoint weeks before ethnic cleansing in NK.
BREAKING: Azerbaian’s President Aliyev announced he has donated one million USD to the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) from the Presidential Contingency Fund. This donation comes the day before a UN mission visited the Artsakh region.
The UN mission reported that during their visit to Stepanakert, they observed no visible damage to public buildings, and there were no signs of violence against civilians following the latest ceasefire. They estimated that between 50 and 1,000 ethnic Armenians remain in Artsakh.
The UN emphasized the “need to build trust and confidence for the local population’s potential return and called for the protection of their rights.”
The UN’s biased report is countered by actual photo and video evidence showing damage to civilian homes and belongings and the number of human lives taken by Azerbaijan’s ruthless attack against Artsakh.
Horribly eerie scenes from inside a now deserted Stepanakert (Khankendi in Azerbaijan)- empty prams, abandoned child scooters, chairs where people must have waited. It really hits home what has happened watching this. #Nagorno_Karabakh
Why is it so hard for Samantha Power (@powerusaid) - who wrote the book on US officials remaining shamefully silent on ethnic-cleansing - to answer a yes-or-no question about the ethnic-cleansing of #Artsakh's Armenians?