The LA County Board of Supervisors is urging the Biden Administration to take action and suspend all U.S. military and economic assistance to Azerbaijan.
Standing on the deserted streets of Nagorno-Karabakh on the 20th anniversary of his inauguration, Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev said he had achieved the “sacred goal” of his presidency: reclaiming the land taken from his father.
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VIEW GALLERY: The Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry took part in a national commemoration at Yerablur on May 9. Photos courtesy of the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Many of Those Remembered Were Registered with ABMDR
as Potential Bone Marrow Donors.
The Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry took part in a national commemoration in honor of the thousands of soldiers who fell in the First and Second Artsakh Wars. The mourned soldiers include 94 young men who had joined ABMDR as potential bone marrow donors.
The commemoration took place in Yerevan on May 9, the traditional date that marks Shushi Liberation Day. Every year on May 8 and May 9 and up till 2020, Armenians celebrated the liberation of Shushi and the liberation of Artsakh as a whole. This year, however, as the Armenian nation is reeling from the loss of Shushi and other territories as a result of the Artsakh War of 2020, May 9 has instead become a day of remembrance and mourning.
Armenian prime minister rejects 25,000 protesters’ calls to resign
Opposition supporters have started a nationwide strike and set up tents in the capital. They claim they ll stay until the PM steps down, but he said he has no intention of leaving office. December 23, 2020 2:20:08 pm
Tens of thousands of workers answered the opposition ARF s calls for a nationwide strike and are demanding the PM resign. (Photograph: DW)
Some 25,000 Armenians descended on the capital, Yerevan, on Tuesday to set up encampments outside government buildings where they plan sustained protests to force the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Citizens are enraged at Pashinyan, who came to power in a peaceful revolution in May 2018, for what they said has called his dreadful handling of the recent six-week conflict with Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. His signing of a Russian-brokered peace deal that saw Armenia forfeit large territories