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Posted 28 October 2020 - 09:19 AM

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Glendale City Council to discuss recognition of Artsakh’s independence

 
 
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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, ARMENPRESS. The City Council of U.S. Glendale city will discuss the resolution on recognizing the independence of Artsakh today, member of Glendale City Council Eliza Papazian told ARMENPRESS.

‘’Our City Council will discuss that issue this evening, the session will kick off at 18:00 (05:00 in Armenia)’’, Papazian said.

 

To the question if the resolution will be adopted, Papazian gave a positive answer.

The resolution is authored by Glendale Mayor Vrej Agajanian.

The resolution notes that the Republic of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno  Karabakh, is historically an Armenian land, which has always had an Armenian majority of the population.

The resolution also calls on the US President and the Congress to recognize the independence of Artsakh.

 

 

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Posted 28 October 2020 - 09:23 AM

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27 October, 2020 23:40
 

By Michael Krikorian

 
 
 

The good Scotch flowed smoothly in a spacious Glendale backyard on Saturday night a month ago. It was September 26 and Dr. Alexander Gevorgyan, a surgeon who specializes in facial reconstruction, was enjoying his friends’ tales of hunting in the mountains near Bishop, California as they indulged on a Macallan 18 year-old scotch whiskey and the even more rarefied Macallan 25.

Then someone’s phone rang. It was Sunday morning in Karabakh and war had erupted. Azerbaijani forces were bombing the eastern towns of the mountainous region populated almost solely by Armenians. 

By Monday, Gevorgyan was organizing efforts with his co-workers to send relief supplies to Armenia and on to the frontline. Blankets, bandages and coats were among the essential items they gathered to send. But, considered the most urgent supplies to send were tourniquets, that dreaded battlefield dressing vital to stopping extreme blood loss.

For the next several days, Gevorgyan, who was born in Gyumri in 1979 and moved to Yerevan following the devastating earthquake in nearby Spitak in 1988, anguished over what he could do to help. But, deep down he knew he had to go help the wounded. He told his wife, Anet.

Anet was silent for several seconds. Then she swallowed and said, “You know you have kids.”

“I know,” he said. “I have a country, too.”

The couple hugged and he rationalized his case. “You and the children will be safe in Los Angeles. But there are a lot of children fighting and they will need my skills. There are 18, 19-year-old boys fighting. They are our kids, too.”

Anet knew she couldn’t stop him. The only thing she could do was make him promise to come home safely.

Gevorgyan, who has lived in Glendale since arriving in America in 2010, landed in Yerevan Oct. 9 and arrived by car to Karabakh the next night.

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Tuesday afternoon, a man wearing a black outfit that matches his beard and hair is walking up a narrow dirt path away from the hospital towards a narrow, partially paved street. A dirty van turned into a makeshift ambulance races by the man walking. It is taking two soldiers whose bloody wounds have been staunched at this site to a more sophisticated hospital in Stepanakert or maybe even Yerevan.  As the van drives off, two explosions are heard in the distance. Soldiers and workers implore a journalist not to give the location of the hospital. They don’t think the enemy would bomb here if they were aware of the hospital location. They know it.  

The man in black is Dr. Gevorgyan and, as he is about to sit down on a concrete block, a soldier hurries over and respectfully puts down a red blanket.

The doctor stares at a reporter for couple of seconds. “I heard there was a journalist here who wanted to interview me, but I didn’t want to leave the hospital to talk to anyone. I am not a star. But the commander told me the journalist came from Los Angeles, so here I am.”

He looks around the dusty corner where three soldiers stand guard.    

“This is where I arrived that first night. It was absolutely pitch black and there were probably a million stars in the sky above, but I only looked up for drones,” he says. “You can hear them. Then came vans with the wounded, speeding up and making this turn,  down this hill to the hospital. It was chaos. In my training and at work of course I have seen bleeding patients after car accidents, but the quantity of bloody people I saw that night is something you only see in a war zone.”

Morphine and its relatives are used liberally.

In the nearly three weeks he has been here, Dr. Gevorgyan says relatively few of the soldiers who’ve been brought to the hospital have died. However, he says heartbreakingly, some of the soldiers “do arrive with wounds that are not compatible with life.” He stops talking and looks at the blue sky above. In the distance several more explosions are heard.  “Sometimes doctors can’t do god’s work. We are only doctors.”

The teams of doctors and nurses perform their duties with resolute efficiency, he says. “Everyone knows what they need to do and they just do it. Stopping bleeding and extreme pain is the first steps. Number one thing is to stabilize them. I don’t even know their names. We don’t have time to chit chat.”

He gives utmost credit to the special group of people whose job is to go to the actual battlefields – be it a city street or a field – and pick up the wounded. They often have a red cross painted on their car, but lately that doesn’t protect them from being attacked.

The thought that a car with a red cross painted on it is targeted, the thought that he has to tell a journalist not to say their location because the hospital will be bombed, starts to enrage Dr. Gevorgyan.

He stands up. “Tell the story. I have to get back to work.” And Dr. Alexander Gevorgyan walks back down a dusty dirt lane toward a hospital somewhere in Karabakh.

Michael Krikorian is a writer from Los Angeles. He was previously a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and for the Fresno Bee. He writes under the pseudonym "Jimmy Dolan" for the Mozza Tribune. His website is www.KrikorianWrites.com and his first novel is called "Southside".

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Posted 28 October 2020 - 09:39 AM

Aliyev says ready for talks with Pashinyan without preconditions

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev says he is ready to hold negotiations without preconditions with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Moscow, Interfax reported.

Aliyev said he would accept an invitation to hold the talks in Moscow, but at the same time he said he hasn’t yet received one.

 

The Azeri president added that he is ready to have negotiations with the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan without preconditions in Moscow, Russia.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 



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Posted 28 October 2020 - 09:44 AM

Photos: Stepanakert maternity hospital damaged in Azerbaijan's attack
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Health Minister Arsen Torosyan has published pictures from the maternity hospital of Stepanakert, which came under Azerbaijan's rocket attack on Wednesday, October 28.

"Terrorist state Azerbaijan targets medical center in Stepanakert, Artsakh with heavy rockets causing severe destructions. Intl health community must condemn this act of terrorism," Torosyan captioned the photos from the capital of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

Azerbaijan is using Smerch multiple rocket launchers to fire on the city.

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Earlier on Wednesday, Azerbaijan launched missile attacks on Stepanakert and Shushi, killing and injuring civilians.

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Azerbaijan, with help from Turkey and Syrian and Libyan mercenaries deployed by Ankara, started a war against Karabakh (Artsakh) in the morning of September 27. The Armenian side has reported deaths and injuries both among the civilian population and the military. Foreign and local journalists too have been injured in Azeri shelling of towns and villages.

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Posted 28 October 2020 - 11:03 AM

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Stop Terrorism and Save the People of Artsakh!



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Posted 28 October 2020 - 11:21 AM

Motion in the @SenateCA by @Senator Housakos calling on the Government of #Canada to condemn the joint Azerbaijani - Turkish aggression and recognize the independence of the Republic of #Artsakh!



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Posted 28 October 2020 - 12:55 PM

Armenia, Artsakh, unlike our two neighbors, do not host, but fight terrorists – MFA responds Turkey

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS. Responding the claims of the defense ministry of Turkey, the Foreign Ministry of Armenia noted that  Armenia and Artsakh, unlike its two neighbors (Azerbaijan and Turkey – edit.) do not host, but fight against terrorists, ARMENPRESS reports spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia Anna Naghdalyan wrote on her Facebook page.

''Unable to conceal the undeniable fact of deploying international jihadist terrorists from Syria and Libya to the South Caucasus region, Turkey once again resorts to the policy of blatantly misleading the international community with fake and provocative allegations.

 

The false allegations of Turkish Ministry of Defense that foreign mercenaries are supporting Armenia and Artsakh reflect the dishonorable nature of the military-political leadership of Turkey.

The Armenian side stands for the immediate withdrawal of international terrorist organizations from the South Caucasus and resolutely rejects Turkey’s actions aimed at further destabilization of the region.

We strongly condemn the joint efforts of Turkey and Azerbaijan - terrorist supporting countries, to turn their countries into a hub of international terrorism and to spread that plague throughout the region. In order to confront this threat, close cooperation among all parties interested in regional security is required.

Armenia and Artsakh, unlike our two neighbours, do not host, but fight terrorists,'' reads the statement.

The Azerbaijani armed forces are diligently establishing bases for terrorist groups, the activities of which can further escalate and destabilize the situation not only near the borders of Armenia and Artsakh, but pose a serious threat to the entire region.



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Posted 28 October 2020 - 12:56 PM

Artsakh vows adequate retaliation if Azerbaijan violates humanitarian ceasefire

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS.  The Defense Ministry of Artsakh urges the Azerbaijani armed forces to remain faithful to the agreements on humanitarian ceasefire, otherwise, proper retaliation will be imminent, ARMENPRESS reports reads the statement issued by the Defense Army of Artsakh.

‘’During the day the adversary continued keeping under fire the peaceful settlements of Artsakh. Particularly, Shushi and Stepanakert cities were bombed by Smerch multiple rocket launchers, strongly damaging the maternity hospital of the capital, and the civilian infrastructures of the two countries. One civilian has been killed, some others are injured. As a result of the adequate actions of the Defense Army, the firing positions located in the rear of the adversary's army have been silenced. The Defense Ministry of the Republic of Artsakh urges the adversary to remain faithful to the agreements on humanitarian ceasefire, otherwise, proper retaliation will be imminent'', reads the statement.

 

 
 


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Posted 28 October 2020 - 12:58 PM

Most of Syrian mercenaries refuse to depart for Azerbaijan – SOHR

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Turkish government has recruited 300 more Syrian mercenaries for sending them to Azerbaijan to fight against Nagorno Karabakh, however, the SOHR says that some difficulties have already emerged in their recruitment process.

“The mercenaries are facing difficulties in Azerbaijan, despite the great temptation to go there. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights continues following the transportation of mercenaries by the Turkish government to Azerbaijan where in recent days 300 more mercenaries have arrived.

 

Turkey has difficulties in terms of deploying them in the war in Nagorno Karabakh: most of the militants refuse to fight as they understand that they will find themselves in a difficult condition there”, the SOHR said in a statement.

It states that at least 2350 mercenaries have been deployed in Azerbaijan for taking part in the battles in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone, of which 320 have returned, refusing from everything, including their salary.

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Posted 28 October 2020 - 01:01 PM

Fake sultan never spoke the truth, why would he start now! 

Armenia denies Aliyev's announcements about casualties of the Armenian side

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS.  The ''assumptions'' of the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev about the casualties of the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides have nothing to do with the reality, ARMENPRESS reports the information verification center examined the false claims of Aliyev in his interview with Interfax.

''In an interview with the Russian Interfax Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev announced that according to their assumptions the Armenian side has suffered over 5 thousand casualties since the start of the war, October 27. Speaking about the losses of the Azerbaijani army, he emphasized that the casualties of the Armenian army is much higher.

 

We announce that the ''assumptions'' of the Azerbaijani president have nothing to do with the reality. In contrast to the Azerbaijani government, which does not disclose its military losses saying that it's a ''military secret'', the Armenian side informs about its losses nearly on daily basis. At the moment the number of our servicemen killed in action is 1065'', the information verification center said.

The claim that the losses of the Azerbaijani army is less than that of the Armenian side, also does not correspond to the reality.

''The Armenian Defense Ministry also publishes the manpower and equipment losses of the Azerbaijani side. According to the last publication, the Azerbaijani side has suffered 6749 manpower losses'', the information verification center informed.

 



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Posted 28 October 2020 - 01:04 PM

France: Turks attack peaceful Armenian protesters with hammers
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PanARMENIAN.Net - A group of Turks in France attacked Armenians rallying to protest Azerbaijan's aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh and hit two of the rally-goers with hammers on Wednesday, October 28.

One of the young Armenian men who sustained an injury to his head is in a serious condition, Aysor.am reports.

"We blocked the road from both sides. There were Turks stuck in traffic who hit our friend in the head with a hammer. There were five of them (the Turks - Ed.)," a protester said.

The police have now arrived at the scene. Protesters have handed them the hammer they managed to snatch from the Turks and are continuing their campaign.

Azerbaijan, with help from Turkey and Syrian and Libyan mercenaries deployed by Ankara, started a war against Karabakh (Artsakh) in the morning of September 27. The Armenian side has reported deaths and injuries both among the civilian population and the military. Foreign and local journalists too have been injured in Azeri shelling of towns and villages.

Donations can be made to Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, which has launched a fundraising campaign to support humanitarian efforts in Karabakh.



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Posted 28 October 2020 - 01:22 PM

«Եղնիկներ»  լեգենդար զորամասում լեգենդար հրամանատարն ու զինվորները արժանի հակահարված են տվել  թուրք–ադրբեջանական խուժանին, ովքեր ռազմի դաշտում թողել են մարդկային ու զինտեխնիկայի մեծ կորուստներ. https://shamshyan.co.../10/27/1168935/



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Posted 28 October 2020 - 03:23 PM

«Հեռացեʹք, որ չդառնաք կենդանի վահան». Վահրամ Պողոսյանի կոչն ադրբեջանցիներին

https://artsakh.news...fc_jXIZgq782vME



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Posted 29 October 2020 - 07:30 AM

Hey you coward fake sultan, read this and put it in your filthy head that you will not win this war, when we have fighters like these unlike your paid thugs from ISIS, pakistan and other shithole places! This shows we are fighting for our homeland, but you want a land given to you by comrade stalin may he rot in hell!

 

With ropes and wooden guns, returning Armenians train for war
By Maria Tsvetkova  
 
   
 
                                                                                                                                      

YEREVAN (Reuters) - When conflict broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh last month, Aghasi Asatryan was thousands of kilometres away in Germany, embarking on a career as an IT specialist.

The 29-year-old Armenian national immediately applied for vacation, citing a family matter, and flew back to Yerevan, his home town.

On a hillside above the Armenian capital, he began combat training at a camp founded by veterans of a previous war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave controlled by ethnic Armenians but internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan.

"My plan is to get prepared and to go to the front line," Asatryan said. Slung across his shoulder was a wooden copy of an AK-47 assault rifle, a training aid given to each volunteer at the camp.

More than 1,000 people have died in a month of clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan considers to be illegally occupied. [nL1N2HJ0WZ]

It rejects any move to leave Armenians in control there, while Armenia regards the territory as part of its historic homeland and says the population there needs its protection.

Asatryan moved to Germany seven years ago as a student, avoiding conscription. He has neither served in the army nor held a gun before and said he could not tell his bosses that he was going back home to fight.

"My German employers wouldn't understand a man who would want to go to war," he said. "But I know that we, the Armenians, wouldn't have survived so many centuries without understanding that every man should fight for his homeland."

Asatryan is one of hundreds of volunteers from as far afield as Argentina and the United States to have joined the VOMA Survival School in recent weeks.

Its founder, Vova Vartanov, fought in the 1991-94 war in Nagorno-Karabakh in which about 30,000 people were killed. He has returned to the front line as leader of a volunteer battalion.

Reuters reporters saw dozens of men and women in the camp, split into groups for lessons on using hand grenades and repelling a gun attack. Some volunteers were practising rock-climbing using ropes and the concrete wall of a waste dump.

Before the latest fighting broke out on Sept. 27, the school would attract 20 to 30 people at a time for training in readiness for a renewed war. One of the instructors, Karapet Aghajanyan, said "hundreds" from the Armenian diaspora had now come.

Armenia's defence ministry said this month that around 10,000 people volunteered to take up arms on the first day of fighting. [nL8N2GZ38H]

Azerbaijan's defence ministry said 55,000 volunteers were registered between July 12 and July 22 after fighting in another region. It said that information about more recent volunteers was classified.

Knarik Karaminasyan, a 21-year-old English teacher from Yerevan, decided to join the volunteers as soon as she learned that women were welcome and could be sent to the front line as medical workers or cooks.

"It was hard at the beginning and I even had nightmares," she said. Now she feels more comfortable.

"Here, I feel better than at home, where I was just scrolling through Facebook, reading the news and panicking... Now I feel that I'm getting ready for something important."

(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova in Yerevan; Additional reporting by Nvard Hovhannisyan in Yerevan and Nailia Bagirova in Baku; Editing by Robin Paxton, Janet Lawrence and John Stonestreet)

 



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Posted 29 October 2020 - 07:57 AM

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Oct 28 2020
 
 
 
“We Are the Rifles Our Ancestors Didn’t Have”: Female Collective Protests for Armenians

Members of the She Loves Collective led a striking procession along the Los Angeles River to raise awareness about the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Renée ReizmanOctober 28, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

LOS ANGELES — It’s golden hour and the sun begins to fade behind the Los Angeles river. We are sitting under an overpass, red and white roses and dead leaves scattered across slanted concrete, and the thundering echo from the cars above pops like crossfire. A woman sits still like a sentinel, a semi-automatic rifle boldly printed on her dress, and a rug woven in Armenia lays under her feet. Next to her, a large banner warns us, “The rifles our ancestors didn’t have.”

Thus begins a peaceful demonstration led by She Loves Collective to raise awareness of the war in the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, which reignited on September 27. In the past month, more than 1,000 Armenians have been killed and thousands more have been displaced from their homes. Last week, She Loves Collective led demonstrations in Downtown Los Angeles, in front of City Hall and the Broad Museum, but even in a city that has one of the largest Armenian populations in the world, the war has received little media attention. 
 
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In a silent procession, the demonstrators, each in a rifle dress and traditional Armenian jewelry, made their way to a row of seats. They sat and worked on crafts, like embroidery, calligraphy, and sewing. On a large cloth, one woman splashed paint, black in the shape of a gun and bright red for blood.
“WE are the rifles our ancestors didn’t have,” She Loves Collective Executive Producer Ani Nina Oganyan wrote to Hyperallergic. “We — the descendants of the survivors, we — the diaspora, we — the artists, musicians, healthcare workers, lawyers, business women, inventors. Our bodies, our minds, our craft, our love, our language, our food, our traditions are a connection to a land that so many of us have never even seen before.”
Behind the women, a video projection depicted recent bombings. Villages have been turned to rubble, and irreplaceable Christian sites have been destroyed. The women walked to the edge of the river, where they plucked petals from roses and cast them into the water. Each petal could represent at least a dozen lives lost in the last month. They were gently swept into the current, ready to wilt in the Pacific Ocean. The last thing we saw on the projection was a simple message, #WeWillWin.
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Posted 29 October 2020 - 08:01 AM

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Armenian email campaign asks SpaceX not to aid Turkish regime with satellite launch
 
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SpaceX staff and members of the media have been inundated this morning with emails ostensibly from concerned Armenians around the world, asking the company to cancel a launch contract with the Turkish government. The concerns are valid — and the mass-email method surprisingly effective.

In the form email, received by TechCrunch staff hundreds of times in duplicate and with minor variations, the senders explain that they represent or stand in solidarity with Armenians worldwide, an ethnic and national group that has suffered under the authoritarian rule and regional influence of Turkey's President, Tayyip Erdogan.

SpaceX is slated to launch the Turkish satellite Turksat-5A in the next month or two, a geostationary communications satellite built by Airbus that will serve a large area of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The deal has been on the books for a long time, and SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk even traveled to Turkey to meet with Erdogan regarding the satellite in 2017.

To enter into the complexities of the long conflict in which Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and nearby countries and powers have figured is beyond the scope of this article, but it is hardly controversial to say that there have been serious human rights abuses under Erdogan's regime and others. The word "genocide" is frequently used.

 

 

As the email plea points out, many countries and governments have opted to condemn Turkey's behavior, and some companies have stopped doing business with the government. Will SpaceX join them?

At this stage — a month before launch, when the payload is likely already locked in — it seems unlikely that SpaceX will return the millions of dollars Turkey has no doubt already paid it, in order to appear more ethical by deplatforming, as it were, the government there.

But the campaign raises a legitimate question that is increasingly faced by new tech-focused companies growing to encompass a global community that is diverse and at times difficult to navigate. Where do companies like SpaceX — or Apple, or Google, or Facebook, or for that matter Airbus — draw the line? Should SpaceX be disinterested and mercenary, simply providing services to anyone who pays? Or are there some governments or people whose money it will not take?

So far SpaceX hasn't had to walk too narrow a path on that front; the launch industry is heavily weighted toward military and government contracts, so the deal is already made with that particular devil. But as it becomes more established and can be a bit more choosy with its customers, it may consider acting as a gatekeeper in the industry where 10 years ago it was a gatecrasher.

 

As for the email campaign, TechCrunch staff were surprised at its effectiveness in eluding Google's spam filters. I contacted the person listed in the email as the originator of the campaign, who did not identify themselves beyond being part of the "Artsakh Strong" movement, for more information and to be removed from future emails (which I was).

The person explained that the emails were sent by individuals, not from a central location, which despite their duplicative content may account for their all making it to our inboxes. "These are people who are coming together to make their unified voice heard," she wrote. " We are not affiliated with any groups but our message is one shared by every Armenian American. I apologize for the inconvenience of you having to delete excessive emails but our people are being murdered on a daily basis and we need to bring attention to our cause."

She suggested that as an American company, SpaceX should embody the country's (supposed) values and refuse to do business with regime's like Erdogan's. Furthermore, she noted that SpaceX receives a great deal of funding and business from the U.S. government, which amounts to a secondhand blessing of its deals as being in the public interest.

"There are calls for sanctions of Turkey by the US and other NATO countries," she wrote. "SpaceX is strongly urged to take all these factors into consideration and decide for itself whether or not it wants to continue to aid Turkey in the face of such overwhelming and clear evidence of criminal actions. At the very least, Elon Musk and SpaceX can halt the launch to see what these investigations lead to. While this may be a loss of profit for SpaceX it would be a huge leap for world progress."

Artsakh Strong raises legitimate points that many companies providing services internationally must address or have their intentions inferred from their actions. This cannot be the first, nor will it be the last, that SpaceX or any of the new generation of space companies will have to make a difficult choice. At the very least they might explain why they choose how they do.

(Update: Artsakh Strong, which refers to the Republic of Artsakh, was originally identified as an individual in this post rather than a movement. This has been corrected and my ignorance exposed.)

 
 
 
 


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Posted 29 October 2020 - 08:07 AM

Coward West is letting a small country Armenia to fight ISIS and it's ilk all alone! Hey West where is your honour? Where is your dignity?

Morning Star, UK

Oct 28 2020
 
 
 
Turkey accused of shipping in jihadists into Azerbaijan-Armenia war
 
 

JIHADIST groups are believed to have been present in Azerbaijan since at least February, it was claimed today, with Turkey accused of shipping in militia, including the Uighur Muslim terror group the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP).

The Islamist fighters are thought to have been mobilised from their bases in Syria to join Azeri forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where they are fighting against Armenia.

Despite Turkey initially denying the presence of the jihadists, film footage and photographs have since corroborated reports which began circulating in the Syrian press in August.

The Morning Star reported on the mobilisation of Turkish troops in July when tensions flared between the two Caucasus nations.

Ankara was accused of a “dangerous provocation” after its armed forces joined their Azeri counterparts for war games exercises close to the Armenian border.

It was reported that Turkey shipped fighters from the Syrian National Army into Azerbaijan during the military operations, with many wearing Turkish army uniforms and staying in the same barracks.

The news was picked up by the mainstream media in late September when it was confirmed that hundreds of jihadists had been flown into Azerbaijan and were paid as much as $2,000 (£1,530) a month to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh.

But according to the latest reports, Islamist groups are thought to have been present in Azerbaijan as early as February.

Members of the Armenian diaspora in the Syrian city of Aleppo claim that mercenaries were sent by Turkey on buses belonging to the Aras transport company arriving in the Azeri regions of Nakhichivan and Sumgait in February and March.

Aleppo-based freelance journalist Armen Tigrankert reported that the Uighur jihadists from the TIP, formerly known as the East Turkmenistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), were also mobilised by Ankara.

TIP is designated as a terrorist organisation by the EU, UN and US, among other countries.

Affiliated to al-Qaida, it seeks to establish a caliphate called East Turkestan to replace China’s Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region. TIP is accused of carrying out more than 200 terror attacks in the region between 1990 and 2001, killing more than 400 people.

The group sent fighters to join the myriad of jihadist groups in Syria as they sought to overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

TIP has a base in the city of Jisr al-Shughur in the Syrian province of Idlib, which remains under the control of Turkish-affiliated militants.

Its fighters were reportedly given military training in the province before 30 Uighurs and their families were flown on a Turkish Airlines flight from the Turkish city of Antakya in Hatay province to the Azeri capital Baku.

According to reports, the Uighur fighters are paid just $500 (£382) to $700 (£535) per month by the Turkish state, significantly lower than those from other militia including the Sultan Murad Brigade.

Battle continues to rage between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh after a third ceasefire broke down minutes after it was implemented on Monday.

Azeri forces have been accused of war crimes, including the use of banned cluster bombs and the beheading of a captured Armenian soldier.

 
 
 

 


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Posted 29 October 2020 - 08:33 AM

EurasiaNet.org
Oct 28 2020
 
 
Small outpost is Russia’s first visible aid to Armenia The base is small, but would act as a tripwire deterring Azerbaijan from expanding its offensive into Armenian territory.
Ani Mejlumyan Oct 28, 2020
 

Russia has reportedly set up a small military outpost on the border of Armenia in an apparent attempt to keep Azerbaijan’s offensive from spilling over into Armenian territory.

Foreign journalists have documented the small post, consisting of a few tents and with a Russian flag flying above it. It is located next to Tegh, the last village in Armenia on the road to Lachin, the narrow corridor connecting the country to Nagorno-Karabakh.

either Russia nor Armenia has officially confirmed the presence of the post at Tegh. No Armenian media has reported on the outpost.

Over the past week, Azerbaijani forces have advanced to close to Lachin (which Armenians call Berdzor), the essential lifeline for Karabakh. It is the only road available for both civilians and military forces to get in and out of the territory, which Armenians have controlled since the early 1990s and which Azerbaijan is seeking to retake.

At an October 27 briefing, Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said that Armenian forces had repelled an attack on the area.

“Today, the enemy attempted to carry out attacks in the direction of Berdzor,” he told reporters. It also attempted to approach the border of the Republic of Armenia from the southern direction. All of the attempts were thwarted.”

Soon after the fighting started on September 27, Armenia set up its own outposts in Khndzoresk, a bit further in to Armenian territory.

But the Russian deployment is a much more significant deterrence for Azerbaijan; in spite of its small size it would act as a tripwire deterring Baku from triggering a more substantial Russian response.

Russia’s relatively hands-off approach has been the source of much disappointment and speculation among Armenians, and there had been multiple reports of a Russian military presence in southern Armenia.

On October 20, news website 1in.am reported, referring to unnamed sources, that “Russian troops have joined Armenian forces to guard Armenia’s borders. According to our information their number is not small.”

But another news site, Infocom.am, cited sources in the regional Syunik government saying that the only Russian troop presence in the region were the border guards who have been patrolling Armenia’s border with Iran since 1995.

Russia’s efforts are welcomed by Armenians, however insignificant or discreet they might be.

Many in Armenia have become disillusioned with the lax attitude that much of the international community has taken toward the conflict. But Russia has been mostly spared that criticism.

The president of the Armenia-backed de facto Nagorno Karabakh government, Arayik Harutyunyan, issued an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 23. He thanked Putin for mentioning, in a recent speech, the Sumgait pogroms of 1988, when Azerbaijanis attacked ethnic Armenians living in that city; it was one of the key precipitating events of the war that resulted in Armenian control over Karabakh and the surrounding territories.

“This conflict did not begin as a conflict just between two governments over a territory, it began with interethnic confrontations,” Putin said at the Valdai discussion club on October 20. “Sadly, this is a fact, when first in Sumgait and then in Nagorno-Karabakh brutal crimes were committed against the Armenian people.”

Harutyunyan responded: “Unfortunately, Azerbaijan continues its genocidal policy to this day. […] You [Putin] are the personality and the head of state who has a huge reputation all over the world and in our region. Taking this into account, I ask you to make all possible efforts to stop the war in the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict zone and resume political processes.”

Putin’s other comments have been more ambiguous, however. He has referred to both Armenia and Azerbaijan as valued Russian partners. And he has specified that Russia’s treaty obligation to defend Armenia – both are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization – applies only to Armenia itself, not to Armenian-controlled territory in and around Karabakh.

The topic of Russian aid has been a hot one in Armenia, and there are widespread rumors of secret Russian military aid, though there is no evidence to support them.

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev also has repeatedly claimed that Armenia is being supplied with new weapons.

In an October 27 interview with Italian television, Aliyev said that “there are 5,000 Russian troops at the base in Gyumri, and according to the information we have, the base maintains regular arms supply to Armenian armed forces.”

“The most state-of-the-art weapons are being dispatched to Armenia every day,” he said on October 25. “We have a list of such weapons. We have data about the flights: when, where from the flight was performed to Yerevan, and which cargo it carried.”

 

Ani Mejlumyan is a reporter based in Yerevan.

 

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Posted 29 October 2020 - 08:36 AM

Reporters Without Borders
Oct 28 2020
 
 
 
TV journalist hounded in France over Nagorno-Karabakh report
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the online attacks that a French TV reporter received from members of the Armenian community in France after just doing her job by covering the current fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region from the Azerbaijani side of the front line.

Liseron Boudoul, a staff reporter for the French TV channel TF1, began receiving hate messages on Facebook and Twitter, including such insults as “genocidal whore,” after TFI broadcast her report on its 8 p.m. news programme on 22 October. She was also subjected to pressure via a WhatsApp text from someone who had managed to get her personal phone number.

 

TF1 was itself also targeted by systematic harassment on social media and in emails and phone calls.

 

Two reporters for a leading French daily were also subjected to online threats from members of the Armenian community in France in early October in connection with their articles about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

 

We firmly condemn the harassment to which Liseron Boudoul and TF1 have been subjected,” said Pavol Szalai, the Head of RSF’s European Union and Balkans Desk. “It is unacceptable for a journalist and a media outlet to be hounded in this way for covering a conflict, on the grounds that they placed themselves on a certain side of the front line.”

 

Szalai added: “We also call on Franck Papazian, the co-chair of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France, to unequivocally condemn this grave attack on freedom of the press.

 

In a Facebook comment, Papazian described Boudoul’s report as “similar to disinformation.” One of the comments that followed said: “It’s possible that with a few beheadings of senior TF1 personnel, they will think better and more clearly.”

 

The day after Boudoul’s report was broadcast, members of the Armenian community demonstrated spontaneously outside TF1’s headquarters in Paris in protest against what they regarded as the TV channel’s biased coverage.

 

A few days before Boudoul’s report, TF1 had broadcast two reports from the Armenian side of the front line. To defuse tension, TF1 finally removed Boudoul’s report from its website.

 

France is ranked 34th out of 180 countries in RSF's 2020 World Press Freedom Index, while Armenia is ranked 61st and Azerbaijan is ranked 168th.

 
 


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Posted 29 October 2020 - 08:42 AM

The Irish Times
Oct 28 2020
 
 
Armenians hope their fighting spirit will save them amid Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Stepanakert Letter: Scenes from daily life help illustrate the essence of the war here
 
Amanda Coakley in Stepanakert
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The children are gone and only a few women remain. Stepanakert, the de facto capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, has become a city of men. The streets are quiet aside from the odd ambulance, military Jeep or Lada banger grunting along. The supermarket shelves are thinning and the menu options at the Armenia Hotel leave much to be desired.

So much of this war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which erupted on September 27th, is from another time. In the south it’s mostly trench warfare, where young men huddle in shallow narrow trenches. Decaying bodies are scattered across no man’s land – there are reports of wild pigs tearing at rotting flesh at night.

In villages, families are packed on to buses and sent to Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. Some refuse to leave and retreat to a life underground. Every day brings rumours of Azeri advances, fresh propaganda and stories of loss.

In Stepanakert you can talk about the war, but you cannot analyse it. The Armenians’ love for this land, and their willingness to die for it, has hindered their ability to talk about it frankly. A dark flash crosses their face when you mention Azeri gains or press for facts about strategy.

They are a nation of fighters and firmly believe their fighting spirit, coupled with their advantage of having the higher ground in Nagorno-Karabakh, will save them in the end. When asked in an interview with this reporter how the Armenians can defend against Azeri drones, which have been supplied by Turkey and Israel and have inflicted heavy losses, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, said: “This is a sacred war, and the side who fights a sacred fight, wins.”

At the media centre in Stepanakert, which tightly shepherds international journalists, every opportunity to show us a shot-down drone is taken. The reality is the Armenians can’t defend the sky on their own: they need support from outside, and that has been slow to come.
 
Tender moment

If someone randomly hands you a piece of fruit in Nagorno-Karabakh it’s not because they think you’re hungry. They are giving you a part of their home which they have had to flee because of the fighting. It’s a tender moment and should be treated with respect.

On the many minibuses out of Stepanakert, the bag of fruit is treated with a special reverence. It’s likely the succulent apples and king oranges, which are called Arqayanaring, will fade before the end of this most recent escalation. After three humanitarian ceasefire announcements, the bellicose rhetoric and fighting continues – but the fruit is symbolic of the essence of this conflict. On both sides it’s about ownership of every blade of grass in Karabakh.

On Tumanyan Street, Hovik Asmaryan and his wife Isabel, Syrian Armenians from Aleppo, serve free meals all day to soldiers and journalists alike – “It’s my duty to my country,” Hovik says.

One of the most remarkable meals this reporter has had in Nagorno-Karabakh was served on the front line in the company of a group of young soldiers aged between 18 and 20. Arthur, a cheeky boy of 18, was working as a chef before the war and had taken over kitchen duties in the trenches.

Without a moment’s notice he whipped up some chicken with lentils and bread. It was wholesome and honest and came peppered with questions regarding how much carbohydrates the Irish eat compared to the Armenians. The decision was made not to debate such a contentious issue – there would be no winner.

Daily life

Daily life is quiet in Stepanakert but wrapped around the silence is a determination to win the war. The people here are a broad cast of characters. The well-dressed family alone in a shelter every night drinking Karabakhti vodka in memory of the dead. The young soldiers guarding the hotels who are glued to social media, waiting to be called up to the front.

The volunteers asleep in hotel lobbies after walking 4km across the worst front lines under heavy shelling to deliver supplies to the troops. The Baudelaire-loving colonel in a military bunker sitting with a Finnish rifle and reading Dante’s Divine Comedy.

The city seems oblivious to the encroaching front line. This is both a comfort and a cause for concern. Mass is still said daily, and the bakeries still churn out delicious fresh bread. It could be the calm before the storm, or the energy these men need to protect their homeland.

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