#զրոյց #արցախ #խաղաղութիւն #բանակցութիւններ #nkpeace
@{ մարիամ ; wordsthatidefend@spyurk.am} 3/29/2019, 3:12:54 PM
մեկը հարցնի՝ մարիամ ջան, ի՞նչ ես անում, ասեմ ՝ սպասում եմ փաշինեանն ու ալիեւը դուրս գան, տեսնեմ ի՞նչ եղաւ, գնամ լողանամ վերջապես:
#զրույց #խնդիկ
i have deleted my twitter. created it in june 2017. to stay in touch with local community. from envy, i saw people who know each other, who socialize online, and that’s where the envy were coming from. I also wanted to socialize, and be part of the community. to not feel disconnected.
if there is a discussion, i also want to be able to be heard. may be i have a good argument, nobody else has? may be not, all arguments are already known to anyone? but then i want to express myself regarding of what is directly around me. not in the world. not about the people who fight for their rights in europe or states. but about the coming elections in my country? about the political system i have to live in. about the questions regarding trash management in my city? about the #nkpeace or processes at our borders where people die very often?
and when i express myself on diaspora, nobody hears me. local community is too small. and i don’t hear “them”, because diaspora community does not represent the local society. so we don’t or cannot have discussion. may be we already agree on many things. that does not leave the place to discuss. it’s like, i’ve heard that there is a such political situation/problem/discussion, and I stand near the mirror, and tell myself what I think. How can I think something of it, if I don’t even know the context as much, as the people who socialize?
so anyway, i had a seizure of not participating in the deal, de facto deal, that centralized services suggest. i get rid of the “celebration of life” and communications with locals online, and go back to the state I was for years before that. this leads to, sorry for this word, marginalization, isolation and being disconnected from locals, and local publicly important themes.
i’ll try to compensate, may be, this, by staying connected with foreigners here, people what have different contexts, other level problems, etc, which may lead me to even more not understanding the atmosphere around me. I don’t know how long will it take, but I guess, it took years last time, why not now?
still, I don’t think rare real life connections will also contribute to me not being disconnected. So this is it. I know it’s tough, but it is also hard to participate by the suggested rules. I also don’t know if I’ll be active here, I have two jobs now, and get pretty exhausted.
still lets see.
and i keep telegram for now. if i cut it off, i will loose even a couple of remaining contacts i have, in, lets say, small film photography community which has a telegram group.
So, Samvel Martirosyan writes on telegram, that he spoke with Artsakh military and other gov people, and
a. The probability of new offensive (Azerbaijani, obviously), is extremely high now. b. Because now it is hard for them to be invisible while approaching our positions (we have cameras and drones), the easiest way to bring military to the border is conducting military exercises. And now Azerbaijan is conducting military exercises without a pause, and it looks like those are very expensive. c. The probability of war will be much higher after July 14, when the football championship will be over. Before that starting the war can offend the Russian side. By the same logic, now they almost don’t shoot at the borders. e. The offensive probably will start from the south, so that less people will be affected, to decrease response of international community.
#armenia #artsakh #war #peace #nkpeace
aljazeera published an article about Artsakh.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/nagorno-karabakh-silent-war-door-180215082611944.html
#artsakh #nkpeace
girl from artsakh.
#artsakh #nkpeace
from the instagram stream of the girl from artsakh.
#artsakh #nkpeace
Would Israel sell a used drone to a Hitler?
Suppose the Nazis were not murdering Jews but were murdering ‘only’, say, Slavs, Gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses; and suppose our beloved State of Israel were in existence: Would you agree to our selling arms to the Nazis?
Israel is reported to have sold billions of dollars worth of arms, including to governments that are killing or threatening to attack victim peoples. Last week there came reports that an Israeli drone in the hands of Azerbaijan – a huge arms customer of ours – was responsible for the deaths of six Armenians in the enclave Nagorno-Karabakh. And most recently Azeri military transport planes were reported to have landed in Israel (perhaps to pick up and deliver arms) during the war with Armenia.
I am ashamed.
The Armenians were the victims of a major genocide 100 years ago that has even been called the “Armenian Shoah” by some Israeli scholars, including from Bar Ilan University. A great deal of their national and cultural ethos continues to focus passionately on the memory of that genocide (does that sound familiar to us Jews?). For many years now, we Israelis – whether led by Labor or Likud – have insulted and hurt the Armenian people by failing to recognize their genocide officially and formally. Would we ourselves tolerate another government – say the US or England – refusing to recognize the Holocaust because of their realpolitik interest with the perpetrator government?
One senior Armenian official has written several of us in Israel to express his deep pain as well as indignation, not only at our government’s cowardly and self-serving denials of the Armenian Genocide, but also at our thick military trade alliance with the Azeris, a Turkic people who adhere to Turkey’s bizarre and fascist tradition of rewriting history and denying the Armenian Genocide.
I am reminded of the prophet Natan crying out to King David for an earlier though more delectable murderous act of self-interest, or Elijah remonstrating Ahab about his murderous larceny: It’s bad enough that you killed him, are you also taking a profit from the sordid affair? (In the Hebrew: “Haratazachta v’gam yarashta?”)
In general, how willing are we Israelis to strengthen our economy by lucrative arms sales? Of course, “everyone” in the world is doing it, but do we have to also? Have we given up the vision of Israel as a moral leader of peoples on this planet? Is this idea tiresome, naïve, and childlike in a madly destructive and self-destroying world?
An alternative principle could be that we build arms first and foremost for the defense of Israel, and that we supply arms only to underdog peoples who are facing mass destruction and to allies like the US that are essentially committed to shared democratic values and to peace. Of course we will still make some mistakes, but at least our conscience will be more clear that we have not delivered arms to the ‘Nazis.’
To my Armenian colleagues and friends, I can only say that as a Jew and as an Israeli, I am mortified – and angry.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/would-israel-sell-a-used-drone-to-a-hitler/
#israel #azerbaijan #armenia #nkpeace #artsakh #war
No talks with Azeris without security guarantee, Sargsyan says There’s no peacekeeping role in Karabakh for Russian troops
#artsakh #nkpeace
today is a conventional date of the beginning of the 1915’s Armenian genocide in Turkey. Armenians all over the world commemorate the victims. Some of survivors are still alive. Almost all Armenians in the west are ancestors of survivors. Many of us have some relative who survived. My grandfather is also from the family of survivors from Van.
I never liked the date, in particularly, because I felt a link between the date and the victim psychology among the nation. This psychology of the victim was also stimulated and greeted in USSR, as a way to make Armenians more loyal to the empire, and make them sure that they won’t be able to survive without the big brother.
Today is of course, non working day in Armenia, however I came to work, to deal with problems caused by power outage. I was passing through the building and made this photo. This is an A4 b/w print of the We are our mountains monument in Artsakh, and photo of Monte Melkonian, hero of so called NK war. This is what regular radio engineer have printed to hung over it’s table. And though it may seem “militaristic” to hung a photo of a man in uniform, I believe, it’s not really.
(Monte was a very interesting person. when almost all of the Martakert district was lost, and Azerbaidjani army had much more power, he was able to take it back. He had no tanks, but to the end of war he had ~40 tanks under his control, all captured from the Azerbaijani army. He did not tolerate marauding and never allowed that.)
Why is this? Because something have changed. Armenians do not perceive themselves as victims to the such extent as in the past. The important part of an Armenian identity today is that Armenians were able to defend themselves in Artsakh, the population was not eliminated, ethnic cleansings conveyed by Azerbaidjan in late eighties and early nineties failed, at least in most of Artsakh.
They were able to prevent the next genocide. That is why Artsakh is extremely important for any Armenian. That’s a symbol of a victory, probably the most important victory throughout the last ~1000 years.
And what is very sad, that Artsakh has no many chances to be recognized by the International community, and interests of Turkey, which keeps Armenia in blockade, and Azerbaijan, which has oil, are more important to the big players.
It looks like almost any major force is interested to make Artsakh controllable by aggressive, non democratic, militaristic, not tolerant Azerbaijan, which recently again tried to use violence to, as they say, “reestablish territorial integrity”, and in reality, to clean up remaining parts of Artsakh from Armenians. Or, may be make them citizens of the country which conveyed ethnic cleansings, and destroyed every Armenian heritage they were able to.
#1915 #genocide #armenian-genocide #armenian_genocide #armenia #turkey #azerbaijan #artsakh #nkpeace #monte_melkonian #we_our_mountains
Down to earth interview with David Vardanyan, son of Armenian billionaire Ruben Vardanyan, who moved to Artsakh 9.5 months ago to serve as a simple soldier:
http://repatarmenia.org/eng/artsakh-chronicles-vardanyan/
#artsakh #nkpeace #armenia
Konflikt um Berg-Karabach Frauen an die Front
http://m.taz.de/Konflikt-um-Berg-Karabach/!5292596;m/
#artsakh #nkpeace
the only translated to English text about the clashes on meduza https://meduza.io/en/feature/2016/04/08/the-thin-permanent-line
#artsakh #nkpeace #azar #war
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, BBC News, February 2012.
#armenia #azerbaijan #aliyev #armenians #enemies #peace #war #nkpeace #nkfreedom #nagorno-karabakh #artsakh #bbc #freedom
Collection of war threat statements by President Ilham Aliyev and other Azerbaijani officials.
http://eufoa.org/uploads/AliyevWarThreats.pdf
#azerbaijan #aliyev #threats #war #artsakh #nkpeace
popular Russian blogger Anton Nossik (I shared his blog post on Artsakh situation recently) published a photo stating “I am Artsakh”. (:
Unfortunately those commenters that I can see, ask “why Hebrew should support Artsakh”, or say that “it’s the same as supporting LDNR”(Luhansk Donetsk People’s Republic). That’s amazing that Nossik understands the difference between those two. Which unfortunately some of you do not. (:
Nossik answers in comments: “in the unmanned Azeri shit there are UAVs made in Israeli. Did you understand that? The oil money doesn’t smell?”
#nossik #artsakh #nkpeace
what I value, and understood recently that it has to be valued, is that not only Artsakh ministry of defence, but also Armenian ministry of defence, publish names of the killed staff. They publish different names.
Armenian ministry of defence does not hide the presence of it’s people in Artsakh.
I did not know this can be an issue, before I saw how Putin’s Russia behave. Russia does not acknowledge it’s military men, when they get catched. Russia shows their wives (or may be those are not real wives) on tv and says - they already left the army. Yesterday.
Like if it is easy to leave army. Like if any one would like to die for Russia, by knowing that his death will never be acknowledged, accepted. They’ve sent him to die, and they reject him at the same time. They won’t bargain for him, in case he will become a captive, but at the same time, they keep captives, or let’s say hostages like Savchenko to bargain benefits for her.
#russia #artsakh #nkpeace
well, Armenian propaganda poster.
#artsakh #nkpeace
I remember the interview of the, as we call it, third Armenian republic’s, first president Ter-Petrossian to the one of Russian newspapers regarding Artsakh situation back in nineties. He said something like:
— Armenians are those who survived genocide. We cannot afford another one.
#armenia #genocide #armenians #artsakh #nkpeace
today at work:
— I do not believe in any peace agreement. I do not trust Azerbaijanis. It was always the same for the last 1000 years. Turkic people always attacked - the difference lies in the means: when they had swords - they used swords, in Soviet times they had stones or sticks, they’ve used stones and sticks, now they have “smerch” - they use “smerch”.
#artsakh #nkpeace #talk
the armed man on the picture says: “sorry, my boy, it’s a reflex”. (:
don’t know if it’s true, but
Strange fact: Because of Azerbaijan, no country has shot down more Israeli drones than Armenia. Artsakh is a graveyard of Israeli drones.
#drone #artsakh #nkpeace
#nkpeace #graffiti in #yerevan
Talish: the traces of the 5 days war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbMy9uH3UI
The villager doesn’t have the courage to tell that the Azerbaijani army have been in the village. He knows it’s responsible to say, and avoids the question - if they were there or not. Said " I don’t know”. (:
Said his wife kept the child under the skirt during the artillery attack, to calm her down. Said it’s safe there. reminds the Günter Grass’ “The Tin Drum” (Die Blechtrommel) novel beginning.
#talish #artsakh #nkpeace
The Armenian government has allocated funding today for the completion of the construction of a strategically important road that would link Armenia and Artsakh. source
Well, that road exists, but it had no asphalt covering last time I’ve been there, and is full with pits, and not very much usable. Road from #Drmbon(western shore of #Sarsang reservoir) to Sotk takes 5 hours, though it’s very short. When I was going to drive by that road for the first time, some told me “don’t go there, you’ll break your car”. That was amazing night, yes, night! And we did it!
Imagine, the Ter-ter river flows at the left side of the road, you can hear it, but you do not see it, and at the right side there is a sheer rock, extremely high. And then there’s rusting remainings of the dead tank. And traces of caterpillars everywhere.
That first time was hard but unforgettable experience.
In USSR they’ve used to put hatches not at side-walks, but in the middle of the streets. They were afraid that in case of war, ruined building might prevent to access the infrastructure. That is why these hatches are hated by careful drivers who tend to avoid these hatches while driving, bypass them. I was never really in to that, but since we’ve passed that Drmbon - Sotk road, I realized that bypassing hatches has no sense at all. At least for me. If we have passed that road, then who cares about street hatches? No, no. Just keep going by your line and ignore them.
#road #martakert #drmbon #sotk #ter-ter #artsakh #nkpeace
Google marks Artsakh IP addresses as Armenian, but Twitter marks them as Azerbaijani
That must be very frustrating, to live in Artsakh and to see twitter greetings in Azerbaijani, specifically when you are struggling for your freedom, and get bombed by Azerbaijani military.
I know the feeling. When I am driving in Artsakh, I tend to not open Google Maps, but use some Open Street Map software.
Because once I open google maps, then this is time to panic! Why there are Azerbaijani/Turkic locality names around? Where am I? Didn’t I get lost? Will they shoot me now? Oh, may be that’s google? But wait, then what this locality name means? Yes, I can read Latin letters, but what this locality name correspond to? Aaaaa… God save me! Please.
But openstreetmap shows a line of contact, shows Armenian locality names, and I see native homy letters. That feels safe. Everything is as it should be.
So, no, nobody can force me to use google maps, instead of OSM. (: No. Not possible. No. (:
#google #twitter #maps #osm #openstreetmap #artsakh #nkpeace #panic #dont_panic
when the openstreetmap editor will show us newer satellite pictures, that’s the time to repaint the contact line, if necessary. and to see the difference. because though authorities cannot be trusted, in these days not everything can be hidden.
#artsakh #nkpeace #diff
there was some political observer, who said: “Azerbaijani military has huge losses, they’ve got their lesson”.
Well, that statement hardly survives critics. Imagine a professional boxer. What if he failed a fight? Will he give up his professional carrier? The purpose of military forces is war. They are designed to, trained and exist for the war. They won’t give up because (even if) they had losses. Moreover if the losses are among soldiers, not the land. Nobody cares about soldiers, of course.
#artsakh #nkpeace
so Aliyev will take stronger positions both in the negotiation process, and inside the country he rules.
He would say, “we were gonna take our land back by force, but the international community asked us to give one more chance to the peaceful resolution. We of course are very peaceful and will let them try one more time.”. Practically he knows that if he had planned the blitz-krieg, to take the whole in a couple of days, then the plan have been failed. However he will pressure the Minks group, to pressure the Armenian side to agree to his demands, because otherwise, he can restart the war. That the previous threats were not just threats, and his patience has limits.
“Meanwhile, dear compatriots, we have to buy more weapons, so you have to live poor lives for some more time, because it’s for the sake of our land, and our territories” - is the message which Azerbaijani population will get.
Similar message has no meaning here - everybody knows, that their brothers and sisters[1] need to be defended.
However, Aliyev would not have this “stronger” positions, if as the result of his latest aggression, he would lost even more land. Then he would be unable to say - we can restart it, because the message they would get - as a result of an aggression we lost more.
Why they did not loose? Because the Armenian side again strived to show that they have no desire and motives to make war, or because the Armenian side simply had no resources to go forward? It’s prepared for the defending war, not the invading war. Or may be both reasons are there.
Armenian side says, that they were able to return all the lost positions before the ceasefire. I hardly believe that. It seems that Azerbaijan managed to take Talish village, came close to Mataghis, then Talish was returned back under Armenian control and Martakert district’s contact line might be indeed restored [2].
So it seems that Armenian side did not loose any populated locality, that would be impossible to hide, but probably have lost space. Well, space is vital for the populated community, that’s where the villagers work. Whatever, when the locality itself is returned, Armenian authorities can safely say that they were able to take back everything they’ve lost[3]. I guess, Artsakh forces have some territorial losses at the southern part non populated areas. Martakert part, northern part is probably indeed taken back, and people can return to repair their houses.
[1] And yes, that is not an ex-aggregation, almost anybody has relatives there. Even during Soviet times though there were no normal road, or connection(probably on purpose), Artsakh people were practically living in the cultural space of the ArmSSR, and contacts were always tight. Huge part of the company I work for, people who are 50 years old and more, are from Artsakh. Their kids are used to go to Artsakh to see their grands. I do not talk about modern times, of course, contacts now are even more tight, Artsakh is isolated, and if during USSR rule, young people who strived for the better education, could go not only to Yerevan, but also go to Baku. Now the world is accessible to them, in direct meaning, only through Armenia, that is the window they have.
[2] Martakert district of NKAO had more space, eastern part of it is under control of Azerbaijan forces, and as it’s visible on the map, they’ve managed to build pretty big populated localities there during these 20 years.
[3] This or that mountain at the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan (not Artsakh, Artsakh is defended much better, as far as I understand) are always exchanged. The border as it pictured on map, the border of Armenian SSR does not correspond to the reality. Reality is, who controls which mountain. I know it from the times I was serving in the army.
#artsakh #nkpeace
15:00 As of noon today, the armed forces of NKR and Azerbaijan have agreed to put a halt to the fighting along the line of Contact given that Minsk Group negotiations are underway in Vienna.
News of the ceasefire was confirmed to Hetq in an interview with NKR Defense Army Spokesman Senor Hasratyan.
14:05 According to Artsakhpress, the aggressive offensive measures taken by Azerbaijan in all directions of the border were relatively passive within the last several hours. With corresponding actions, the Karabakh army suppressed Azerbaijan’s activeness, returning the lost positions.
http://civilnet.am/2016/04/05/frontline-updates-april-5-newsfeed/#.VwOiekn-1hF
#artsakh #nkpeace
well, I know what can be done in order to stop the war. to counter strike, and go forward. that would immediately force the opposite side to ask for the ceasefire. exactly as it was in nineties.
why it’s not done? probably because we are not able to. probably because of incomparable military power.
#artsakh #nkpeace
one of the parliamentarians, who returned from Artsakh today, commented, that probably the goal was to attack from South and North, and if that succeeds, attack from the East to the direction of Stepanakert, and that, goal, at least for now failed.
#artsakh #nkpeace
#propaganda #war #artsakh #nkpeace
Russian writer, Mikhail Veller, on Artsakh: http://echo.msk.ru/programs/just_think/1740954-echo/ (in Russian) #artsakh #nkpeace
well, a bit narcissistic, because we did not have many refugees (yet). but true.
#artsakh #nkpeace
today’s news are, Azerbaijani military forces started to use Smerch. something like this probably. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-30_Smerch
It haven’t been used in previous days. Probably that means Artsakh resistance is not that bad, that they’ve needed to use a stronger weapon.
#artsakh #nkpeace
I do not want to post anything like “this child have been killed”, or see this “killed couple”, that is what “they” have done. Because I consider that’s a cheap way of manipulation. The war started. That’s a part of war. I have no right to manipulate you by posting something like that.
I guess same shit may happen at the opposite side. Though NK authorities claim they won’t target civilians, I am not sure, that even if they want to, they always can do that. If they shower each other with fire, civilian deaths are inevitable. :/
#artsakh #nkpeace #war
this Azerbaijani poster is better made. (: more expressive than the previous one.
#design #socute #artsakh #nkpeace
Martakert is under the fire, because the “contact line” is too close to the city. Bus was hit because the “contact line” is too close to the road. I always felt it at that road. It’s too close.
#artsakh #nkpeace
#socute #artsakh #nkpeace
Azerbaijan claims they’ve taken Mataghis village. Artsakh Defence Army says it’s not true. If Mataghis is taken, then probably Talish is taken too. I have no idea what is going on in reality.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=40.3242&mlon=46.7393#map=12/40.3242/46.7393
#artsakh #nkpeace
on Russia, as an ally of Armenia.
— when they were selling weapons for billions of dollars to Azerbaijan, didn’t they know where those means might be handy? Didn’t they ask Aliyev what he intents to do with those? Or they have supposed that he will go hunting?
#artsakh #nkpeace #talk
why there are no news about shot down Armenian helicopters? I guess probably because Armenian side does not use aviation. I guess that’s because they know helicopters certainly will be shot down quickly. Probably, aviation has some use like support during attacks, and as far as I understand Armenian side are unable to use itt. Which means they have more troubles to take back positions they’ve lost.
#artsakh #nkpeace
there is a video on youtube, how Armenian soldier shot down Azerbaijani helicopter with RPG. well that happens in Hollywood films, but seriously, why RPG? didn’t we have something that suits that purpose better? well, may be we did not.
#artsakh #nkpeace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNw1Ka05PM4
#artsakh #nkpeace
http://civilnet.am/2016/04/04/frontline-updates-april-4newsfeed/
#artsakh #nkpeace
the bill, brought through the decades: http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5701503B83E22
Ikhlov, don’t like him, but worth reading. In Russian.
#artsakh #nkpeace
Azerbaijan was waiting for this revenge bore than 20 years.
Military and political preparations for the current events have been done during all these years.
Interesting question - why exactly now?
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That’s simple: only Azerbaijan needs war today. And certainly known why - to return lost in 1994 territories, where now located not recognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Return of the territories, populated by Armenians under the control of Azerbaijan - that is understandable, concrete, never hidden, loudly declared task. Which wasn’t possible to solve 22 years by political means, and now, according to the definition of Karl von Klausevitz, is starting “the continuation of politics by other means”. However that is a politics of Azerbaijan alone, not the “all conflict sides”.
And it’s very much understandable, how this war can be stopped in 20 seconds. By one phone call from Kremlin to Baku, and one simple phrase: “Armenia is our ally”. Nobody in Baku is ready to fight Russia. And they would “go back to the previously prepared positions”. And defer “the continuation of politics by other means” to the better times, which are worser.
source (in russian)
#artsakh #armenia #azerbaijan #russia #kremlin #baku #war #nkpeace
I do not like this Russian author, but translated a part of her program:
President of Turkey, Erdogan, also has a right to it’s own “crimea is ours”, especially, when it is necessary to take away attention from the acts of terrorism and put Putin on it’s place. At March 15, after terroristic acts, 2 weeks ago, president of Azerbaijan urgently came to Ankara, to participate high Turkish Azerbaijani strategic council. And 2 weeks later Azerbaijan by using all military means performed an attack by the whole border line with Karabakh. According to the Azerbaijani side version, of course, that were cursed Armenians, who attacked them first. And I have no doubts that Turkey will support Azerbaijani attitude to liberate Azerbaijani “Crimea is ours”. And Putin, who promised to Erdogan different asymmetric responses, will be in difficult position, because asymmetric response was made to us, by using Armenia, the only one our ally, or to be precise, hostage of Russia. Because nowadays Russia has no allies - only hostages.
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That’s a traditional Turkish answer to the question, what to do in a difficult internal and international situation, since the times of young turks. What to do? Kill Armenians!
source in Russian.
#artsakh #nkpeace
comments to the other article: http://grani.ru/Politics/World/Asia/d.250196.html http://mirror581.graniru.info/Politics/World/Asia/d.250196.html (in russian) #artsakh #nkpeace
April 3- The Day on the Frontline
http://civilnet.am/2016/04/03/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-developments/#.VwJDe0n-1hE
#artsakh #nkpeace
Or, Azerbaijan decided to try to launch a small military operation to try to “change the facts on the ground” that would tilt the situation more in its favour and recapture lost lands - and Azerbaijan is indeed saying it captured some small pieces of territory.
This kind of operation would have the additional benefit of distracting the Azerbaijani population from the economic woes caused by falling oil prices.
Both the Armenian and Azerbaijani publics, who have good reason to be critical of their leaders, have indeed rallied round the nationalist flag in the last two days and forgotten about domestic problems.
There is now a new truce - declared unilaterally by Azerbaijan - but a fragile one and fighting is reported to continue. Emotions are high and the mood for revenge will be strong. This is not a conflict that the world can continue to ignore.
Waal for BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35954969
#nkpeace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stAKYQtJgI
Analysis of Developments in NKR (in English)
#nkpeace #artsakh #analysis
probably grandmother from the previous post is someone like this.
source Une femme de 106 ans défendant sa maison en Arménie, 1990.
#armenia #1990 #photo #gradmother #war #nk #nkpeace
so, one Armenian guy who studies in Europe, calls to his grandmother, who lives in one of the villages, which are under Azerbaijani artillery fire currently, and asks how they are. she says, that it’s okay, and worries about the grandson, saying - “you won’t go to Brussels, right? it’s dangerous there, I’ve heard”.
#artsakh #nkpeace #talk
Does Armenia need it? Experience of 1988-1992 years, when Soviet army performed as grave differ or chastener of Armenian population, does not inspire enthusiasm in Yerevan and Stepanakert. Moreover, that for preserving “balance of interests” Russia, without hiding it’s intentions, promices Baku to return all liberated during the Karabakh war territories surrounding former NKAO, which became the security belt for the second Armenian republic.
from the war on “april’s fool day”, article by Tigran Khzmalian at kasparov.ru http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=57003A7E96D8C (in russian).
#artsakh #nkpeace #khzmalian #article
state media will always remain incompetent, because competence is not what state demands from them. state demands propaganda, not competence. specifically russian state today. #russia #news #map #competence #artsakh #nkpeace #screenshot
also from Waal:
Under this scenario, President Vladimir Putin can then intervene as the real peacemaker between the two sides and demand a peace deal that includes Russian peacekeepers on the ground.
The trouble with this theory is that Russia, although the most important secondary actor in the Karabakh conflict, does not control the situation on the ground. It is not powerful enough to make the Armenian or Azerbaijani military forces do as it wants. They are strongly independent bodies, answerable only to their own presidents. Russia’s ability to shape events is probably smaller than it looks.
#armenia #artsakh #war #nkpeace #nk #azerbaijan #russia #putin
The Azerbaijani side has more reason to break the ceasefire. As the losing side in the conflict of the 1990s, when it lost almost one seventh (or about 13.6 percent) of its de jure territory to the Armenians, Baku knows that one of its few tools of pressure on the Armenians is to violate the ceasefire and remind them that the status quo can be shaken.
by Thomas de Waal, from here: http://carnegie.ru/commentary/2016/04/02/dangerous-days-in-karabakh/iwiu
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Was it nice by naive Europe and US to support movement in Ukraine toward EU, and then refuse to help in case of Russian aggression? They didn’t expect it? Or they are so afraid of Russia?
Was it nice that when US, Britain and Russia demanded Ukraine to refuse from all their nuclear power, and promised to be warrants of Ukrainian territorial wholeness, that Russia was first who broke the agreement, by aggression, while UK and US just forgot about the paper. US even refuses to sell weapons to Ukraine.
Now, because of absence of western military support, Ukraine cannot fight Russian tanks, and cannot fight professionals from Russia. That’s why Poroshenko had to retreat and do what the monster, the Russian Tsar wants.
but that was predicted back in March by the former Putin’s advisor, and I have shared his talk in Russian yesterday. Putin will go as far as West will allow him.
What can stop tanks? Unfortunately, yes, other tanks can stop tanks. Man with a bag did not stop tanks moving to Tiananmen square. Tanks killed people.
We here know very well that the only reason Azerbaijan did not start war against Armenia yet, is that we are trying to not lag far behind their militarization, which is very hard, cause we are blocked, and don’t have oil money they have. Anyway.
Tanks can stop tanks. Yazidis don’t have military power, that’s why genocide of yazidis in #2014 was possible. And no one, no one helped them from the civilized world. As well, as nobody is helping Ukraine to survive Russian aggression.
This is a very old interview, which dates March 28. Unfortunately there are no good resources in English, and best talks of Illarionov are not available in English.
Now we know, why Yanukovich refused to sign agreement with EU in the last moment. He said to his close people, that Putin promised to take Crimea and Eastern part of Ukraine if he signs the paper. He was pale and frightened as never, as they say.
Also now we know, that military operation in Crimea had no connection with Yanukovich running out of Ukraine, because according to the Defence Ministry of Russia, it started in Feb 20, four days before he run away. Yes, they minted medals, “for taking crimea”, and we can see on those medals that operation started earlier, than they were saying it started.
Also we know from the very careful studies in April, that in all Ukrainian regions overwhelming majority of the people did not feel insecure because of religion, language or ethnicity, and that majority wanted to keep Ukrainian wholeness, continue to be Ukrainian citizens. It’s obvious that there was no people’s movement, but all the troubles were organized by emulating of movement by Russian SpetzNaz.
And corruption, that’s a very good lever if you want to colonize someone. That’s the lever Russia knows how to use.
It’s very pity that by having their great potential, their scientists and engineers they, instead of creating a civilized and developed country, make draconian laws and force free and clever people to emigrate from Russia, so that only controllable and manipulatable, non educated people remain there. I hope one day Russia will become a country, we all would want to be friends with. Not the country which forces Armenia to change national language. Not the country which wants all resources, to control anything, and wants to dictate everything, pressures so hard, by not giving us to take a breath.
Yes, if you don’t like US in Iraq, you shouldn’t like Russia in Ukraine or in Armenia. Let us be free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQZOUT_Iog
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meanwhile, California recognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, or Artsakh Republic, which is the same.
Unfortunately that does not mean anything. I am not excited at all.
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106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47.
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System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian has addressed the recent tensions along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border
“Until there is a lasting peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabagh, both Armenia and Azerbaijan will be both militarily and financially constrained and fall deeper into corruptive political practices subservient to one superpower or another. Karabagh, called Artsakh in Armenian, has been an enclave with a majority population of Armenians given to Azerbaijan by Stalin.
“I’ve been to Artsakh on a visit to Armenia years ago and have to say that the people living there are gracious, generous, kind and deserve peace and prosperity as we all do,” reads his post.
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“Our army, targeting Armenia with missiles, is ready to fulfil even the order of destroying Yerevan,” the statement says
http://www.businessinsider.com/armenia-and-azerbaijan-approaching-war-2014-8#ixzz39sDQ2k8M
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These attacks are more likely to come from the Azerbaijani side, which has rejected international initiatives to stabilize the ceasefire by removing snipers from the front-line. As the losing side in the conflict, the Azerbaijanis make it their business to challenge the status quo, make the other side nervous and remind the world of the conflict.
http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=56322&reloadFlag=1
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so, what do I think about it, why after 20 smth years, Azerbaijan military makes much more attacks now?
Because of two possible reasons, IMHO.
a) As you may remember, Russia forced Armenia to refuse joining EU agreement, and join Eurasion Union. Armenia cut it’s connections with EU by demand of Putin. Then, Eurasian Union did not sign the paper with Armenia (how lucky we are) because they demand to put customs between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
BTW, Armenia and NK have the same economic space, and joined World Trade Organization without problems. Why? Because NK has no other connection to the world, it’s in blockade. Actually, Armenia is also blocked by Azerbaijan and Turkey, but we still have Georgia and Iran. WTO asked Azerbaijan, if they agree to shut down NK blockade, then Armenia can join WTO without NK. Azerbaijan refused. But now Putin and Nazarbayev, the dictator club, demand us to leave this people in blockade. (: Our puppet president cannot agree, he has no support in the country, and it’s impossible to leave NK people blocked even by us. They hardly survive even now.
However, Putin does not care. He needs Armenia to sign the papers, whatever it takes. If we need to make customs on the Armenia-NK border, then we have to obey. If we don’t obey, he asks his friend, another dictator, who puts all his oil money into buying weapons (also from Russia) to heat the temperature at the Contact Line, and disrespect the ceasefire which lasted more than 20 years.
b) Putin needs to have his army to control NK. Thus he will control the territory, and can manipulate Armenia and Azerbaijan even more. In this case Azerbaijan, because he got everything he wanted from Armenia. Almost everything, we did not change the language law, did not obey and add Russian as the state language in Armenia. That’s in every paper Russia suggested within OSCE Minks group, that they need to put their “peacekeepers” in NK. When they control the territory, they can manipulate Azerbaijan to join Eurasian Union, by trading lives of Armenians living in NK. Also, they need to have military bases in Azerbaijan, and Aliyev-father promised it to Russia, and refused to do that later. So this is a way they can get what they want.
Thus Putin needs manipulate Aliyev to restart the war, to make war happen, then put “peacekeepers” and control the NK, thus three coutries in the region.
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