By Naira Vanyan

And so, the strong earthquake, which turned many provinces of Syria and Turkey into ruins, brought not only material but also significant human losses.

Terrifying and moving videos of dead or surviving children being pulled out of the rubble are being shared online. The severe consequences of this disaster will become more evident when the search and rescue operations are completed and the number of victims and missing persons is determined. The earthquake turned into rubble those provinces of Turkey that once belonged to historical Armenia, but were occupied by the Turks at different times and under different circumstances.

Armenians were massacred, raped, slaughtered and buried alive in those territories. And this seems to have been the curse of the land, a retribution for the barbarities committed. On the one hand, we see the punishment of the exalted one. where Armenian blood was spilled, Turkish blood is spilled today, and the “fatherland thief” does not enjoy his “theft”. And the natural disaster caused conflicting feelings among the Armenian society. Maybe, if there was no 44-day war, the approach would be a little different. one could think that it happened a century ago, today’s Turk is different, he is good, he has no guilt for the sins committed by his predecessors. In this case, humanism would surely speak to many of us. But now it’s a different reality, just a year and a half ago, the Turks committed genocide in Artsakh of an entire young generation, raised Yrablur, turned Armenian mothers into black clothes, the bodies of many Armenian youths have not been found to this day. Thousands have been disabled. Our wounds are still bleeding, not closed. Mothers with children are still screaming in pain. Obviously, Turkey saw preparations for a new war with Armenia, witness the large-scale military exercises in Kars… And this means new victims, new bloodshed. But nature put a stop to that plan, perhaps temporarily.

What will this society feel when it sees the one who brought these disasters on its head in a similar tragedy… it is difficult to be forgiving and feel pain…

But the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, decided to deliver humanitarian aid to Turkey, regardless of public dissatisfaction. 27 rescuers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs left Armenia to Turkey to participate in the search and rescue operations in Turkey. This caused intense anger among the Armenian public. In fact, Pashinyan is bandaging Erdogan’s bloody hands, hands drenched in Armenian blood. Let’s not repeat the labels that the Armenian society gave to Pashinyan’s move. Let’s admit that it is a very humanitarian and Christian act. And what will Erdogan feel about this? Will he finally understand that one cannot shed the blood of the neighbor’s children when you have children too? Will he be ashamed of the disasters he has brought upon the Armenians? Will he try to wash his bloody hands, will he understand that the blood of an Armenian cannot be erased from his hands or cleaned…

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By Wally Sarkeesian,

Letter from the citizen of the Republic of Armenia Ms. Hasmik Melikyan to the President of the United States of America J. Biden.

January 15, 2023: The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500 “

Dear President Biden: You showed your courage on April 24, 2021, when you open and boldly uttered the words “Armenian Genocide” in “President Biden’s Armenian Memorial Day Statement”! It has proven that you, as President of the United States and as a person, are keeping your campaign promises, as the other President of the United States, R. Reagan did it. It also showed your respect for the Armenians who live in the US and have a huge impact on the life of your country. Dear Mr. President, I am sure that you are well aware of the deadly situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) – a small but invincible and very strong republic inhabited by Armenians who are physically NOT able to live with Azerbaijanis, blood-seeking terrorists who kill unarmed captured Armenian soldiers,

who rape and cut off alive all parts of the body of Armenian female soldiers and who put stones in the eye sockets of captives! All these terrifying actions were even presented by the blood-seeking barbarians on the Internet! Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) are physically unable to live with those who block the ONLY road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with the Republic of Armenia for 35 days! We live in the 21st century, but the Armenians of Artsakh suffer from the medieval executions of Turkish-Azerbaijani barbarians who remained in their development on the level of the Dark Ages! Dear Mr. President, PLEASE once again show your courage and recognize the INDEPENDENCE of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh).

This step will be another proof that you are a Great Person and the Leader of a truly democratic country that respects the right of nations to self-determination, the right of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to live in peace and raise their children in peace, but not in the Blockade! Recognition of the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will have a Domino effect, and many other countries will follow your steps!”

Sincerely yours, Ms. Hasmik Melikyan, MA in Political Science, American University of Armenia; MPA, Georgia State University, Atlanta, US Yerevan, Republic of Armenia January 15, 2023

by Pan Armenian Council 

For Immediate Release: 

TAKE URGENT ACTION NOW:SaveArtsakh.org Online Advocacy Campaign Launched by Pan Armenian Council 

As 120,000 Armenians in Artsakh enter their second month of a cruel and illegal blockade by Azerbaijan, the Pan-Armenian Council of the Western Region (PAC-WUSA) has launched an online advocacy campaign that allows concerned advocates to call the White Houseand email President Biden urging him to take immediate action to end the crisis, open and secure the Lachin Corridor, and send urgent humanitarian aid.

The website, SaveArtsakh.org, allows users to quickly and easily contact members of the Biden Administration with a succinct and clear message demanding urgent U.S. action by: 

1.     Condemning Azerbaijan’s genocidal campaign against the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh and demanding the immediate re-opening of the Lachin Corridor;

2.     Delivering $100 million in USAID humanitarian assistance to Nagorno Karabakh through the Lachin Corridor to ensure the survival of the 120,000 civilians who have been blockaded since December 12, 2022;

3.     Sending a high-level fact-finding delegation to the Lachin Corridor to accurately document and report on the crisis;

4.     Immediately halting all U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijan in light of the illegal humanitarian blockade imposed on the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, consistent with Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act;

5.     Sanctioning members of the Aliyev regime under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act for ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Aliyev regime;

6.     Introducing a UN Security Council resolution to establish a United Nations Mission in Nagorno Karabakh (UNMINK) consisting of 5,000 military personnel representing at least two Permanent Member States of the UN Security Council.

The PAC-WUSA urges all community members and advocates to immediately contact the White House to end this humanitarian crisis and hold Azerbaijan accountable. The lives of 120,000 innocent civilians are at stake and action is needed now.

SaveArtsakh.org

The Pan-Armenian Council of the Western United States of America was founded in Burbank, California in 2019 and is comprised of 25 of the largest religious, political, cultural and professional organizations leading the Armenian community. Through the Council, these entities strive to fulfill the organization’s mission statement, which is to implement and realize projects of a pan-community nature; to encourage and assist projects which advance the collective interests and the rights of Armenian communities across the Western United States; to undertake steps to resist actions and efforts which are contrary to the collective interests and rights of Armenians; to gather and apply the Armenian community’s resources for the benefit of the community’s interests as well as the welfare of the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh; to always be mindful of the collective health and protection of the Armenian community.

Mayor Bass for joining me in communicating to President Biden the urgent need for U.S. leadership to lift the blockade and bring humanitarian relief to the people of Artsakh.

Via Email: secretary@state.gov December 19, 2022

Glendale, CA Grant Petrosyan Secretary
New York, NY Lucy Varpetian Chair Ex Officio Los Angeles, CA

Members at Large

Hon. Amy Ashvanian Los Angeles, CA
Hrag Alex Bastian
Los Angeles, CA Giselle Davidian Toronto, Ontario Harry H. Dikranian Montreal, Quebec Levon Golendukhin New York, NY
Armen K. Hovannisian Los Angeles, CA Souren Israelyan

New York, NY Mariam Kuregyan Encino, CA
Scott A. Ohnegian Morristown, NJ Tigran Palyan

Los Angeles, CA Ovsanna Takvoryan Encino, CA

NALSA Representative

Diana Gazaryan Los Angeles, CA

Advisory Board

Hon. Larry A. Burns
San Diego, CA
Hon. Dickran Tevrizian (Ret.) Los Angeles, CA

URGENT Re: Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh

The Honorable Antony J. Blinken United States Secretary of State 2201 C St NW
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Secretary Blinken:

We write on behalf of the 30,000 children who are trying to survive in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).1 Azerbaijan has trapped them under its heavy heel and these most vulnerable members of the human race remain under siege. As you have undoubtedly heard, they have been blockaded since December 12, 2022, deprived of the only road that links them to food, supplies, and other necessities of life, including medicine.

The Lachin Corridor,2 the only land route connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the Republic of Armenia, was blocked by provocateurs masquerading as Azerbaijani environmentalists but chanting their true intentions to beleaguered Armenians: “Karabagh is Azerbaijani.” Many of these so-called “environmentalists” have been exposed to be agents of the repressive Azerbaijani regime.3 As of today, that crucial road remains blocked. While Azerbaijan also cut off the gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh for several days in freezing temperatures, for the time being, it has been restored.

This blockade is being wielded as a political lever by the Aliyev regime and it has already created a humanitarian crisis that endangers the health and wellbeing of the most vulnerable in society (notably the children and elderly). This blockade is also imposed with the intent to paralyze the functioning of administrative and civil infrastructures (schools, hospitals, hospices) in Nagorno-Karabakh and to terrorize the Armenians living there. It must be stopped.

All of the medicine in Nagorno-Karabakh must travel through the closed road. Dire shortages have already been registered, and hospitals have suspended their planned procedures in order to preserve scarce supplies for new emergency patients. In addition, 270 children are separated from their parents, who were temporarily outside of Nagorno- Karabakh when the road was blocked and now cannot return.

Nagorno-Karabakh is an enclave that was part of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic but

populated by ethnic Armenians. Because of discrimination by Soviet Azerbaijani authorities, it exercised

its right under Soviet law to secede from Soviet Azerbaijan in 1991. While its sovereign status has been

disputed by Azerbaijan, we do not address that issue here to focus on the current urgent humanitarian

crisis. 2

Based on a 10 November 2020 ceasefire statement between the Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation, Nagorno-Karabakh was left to be connected to the outside world by a sole road, which was to be protected from Azerbaijan by a peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation. Under that statement, there was to be “road safety along the Lachin corridor of citizens, vehicles and

goods in both directions.”

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Aliyev’s Puppet Eco-Activists: Who Blocked the Lachin Corridor Leading to Artsakh? – FIP.AM