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Conversation with Dr. Krikor Tatoyan, MD, General Surgeon, Owner, and Medical Director of TatoyanMD. Detail in Video

December 26, 2023 By administrator

By Wally Sarkeesian

Dr. Krikor B. Tatoyan, a seasoned and highly regarded General Surgeon, serves as the Owner and Medical Director of TatoyanMD Medspa and First Choice Surgical Center, Inc. Bringing over 40 years of expertise to the field, Dr. Tatoyan is a distinguished authority in General and Laparoscopic Surgery. His educational journey includes a BA from Wake Forest University in 1973 and an M.D. from Wake Forest University’s Bowman Gray School Of Medicine in 1977. Dr. Tatoyan completed a 5-year Residency, including Chief Residency, at Maryland General Hospital, University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Board certified by the American College of Surgery in 1985 and re-certified in 1995, Dr. Tatoyan commenced his career as Chief of Surgery at Chambers County Hospital in Lafayette, Alabama, from 1982 to 1985. Relocating to Portland, Indiana, in 1985, he assumed the role of Chief of Surgery at Jay County Hospital until moving to Los Angeles, California, in 1994. Operating a solo practice in Northridge, CA, with privileges at 14 hospitals in Los Angeles County, he founded the Tarzana Surgery Center (2000-2010) and, in 2016, established First Choice Surgical Center, Inc., in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Dr. Tatoyan’s professional affiliations include the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (1999), the American Society of Cosmetic Breast Surgery (1999), and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. He has contributed to The Journal of Urology, Vol. 132, August 1984, and hosts a popular weekly program.

Possessing extensive skills, Dr. Tatoyan is proficient in various surgeries, including Laparoscopic Heartburn/Acid Reflux (GERD), Hiatal Hernia Repair/Nissen Fundoplication, Hemorrhoid Surgery, THD (Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterilization), Hernia repairs, EGD, and Colonoscopy. Additionally, he excels in cosmetic surgery, specializing in tummy tucks, breast augmentations, and liposuction.

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Conversation: with Edgar Ghazaryan, Ex. Governor of Vayots-Dzor, how Pashinyan single-handedly destroyed Artsakh detail in Video.

December 11, 2023 By administrator

By Wally Sarkeesian

Conversation: with Edgar Ghazaryan, how Pashinyan single-handedly destroyed Artsakh Ex. Governor of Vayots-Dzor Marz (Province) Ex. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia in the Republic of Poland Ex. Head of Office of the Constitutional Court. Education 1993-1998, Yerevan State Economics Institute, Department of Management 1998-2001, Yerevan State Economics Institute, post-graduate course 2006-2007, Council of Europe Schools of Political Studies 2009-2010, Moscow School of Political Studies,

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Armenia Artsakh Fund Delivers $486,000 of Medicines for Artsakh Armenians in Armenia

November 4, 2023 By administrator

By, Harut Sassounian,

Glendale — The Armenia Artsakh Fund (AAF) in partnership with Direct Relief of Santa Barbara delivered $486,000 of emergency aid to Artsakh Armenians this week by air shipment.

This valuable and timely shipment included medicines, medical supplies, emergency medical packs, emergency medical kits, and several pallets of hygiene products. The shipped products will help many of the more than 100,000 Armenians of Artsakh who were forced to leave their homes in Artsakh.

Through the years, Direct Relief has donated to AAF tens of millions of dollars of life-saving medicines, medical supplies, and equipment for Armenia and Artsakh. In the first 10 months of this year alone, Direct Relief has donated $27 million of much-needed medicines to Armenia.

“AAF values and appreciates very much this long-standing partnership with Direct Relief,” said Harut Sassounian, President of AAF.

In the past 34 years, AAF has delivered to Armenia and Artsakh a total of over $1 billion worth of humanitarian aid on board 158 airlifts and 2,568 sea containers.  

For more information, call the AAF office: (818) 241-8900; Email: sassoun@pacbell.net.

«Հայաստան Արցախ հիմնադրամը» 486 հազար դոլարի դեղամիջոցներ է հասցնում  արցախահայերին Հայաստանում

Գլենդել – «Հայաստան Արցախ հիմնադրամը» (ՀԱՀ) Սանտա Բարբարայի Direct Relief կազմակերպության հետ համագործակցությամբ այս շաբաթ օդային փոխադրմամբ 486 հազար դոլարի հրատապ օգնություն է ուղարկել արցախահայերին:

Այս խիստ անհրաժեշտ և ժամանակին առաքումը ներառում է դեղամիջոցներ, բժշկական պարագաներ, շտապ բժշկական օգնության փաթեթներ և հիգիենայի պարագաների բազմաթիվ ծանրոցներ: Առաքված օգնությունն օգտակար կլինի ավելի քան 100 հազար արցախահայերին, որոնք բռնի տեղահանվել են Արցախի իրենց տներից ։

Տարիների ընթացքում Direct Relief կազմակերպությունը ՀԱՀ-ին նվիրաբերել է մի քանի տասնյակ միլիոն դոլարի կյանքեր փրկող դեղամիջոցներ, բժշկական պարագաներ ու սարքավորումներ Հայաստանի և Արցախի համար: Միայն այս տարվա առաջին 10 ամիսների ընթացքում Direct Relief-ը Հայաստանին նվիրաբերել է 27 միլիոն դոլարի խիստ անհրաժեշտ դեղամիջոցներ:

«Հայաստան Արցախ հիմնադրամը» բարձր է գնահատում Direct Relief կազմակերպության հետ այս երկարամյա համագործակցությունը», ասաց ՀԱՀ-ի նախագահ Հարութ Սասունյանը:

Անցած 34 տարիների ընթացքում ՀԱՀ-ը Հայաստան և Արցախ է առաքել ընդհանուր առմամբ ավելի քան 1 միլիարդ դոլար արժողությամբ մարդասիրական օգնություն՝ 158 օդանավերով և 2568 ծովային բեռնարկղերով:

Լրացուցիչ տեղեկությունների համար զանգահարել ՀԱՀ-ի գրասենյակ՝ (818) 241-8900; էլեկտրոնային փոստ՝ sassoun@pacbell.net:

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Conversation with Vic Gerami: Fights The Information War For Armenians Truth And Accountability League (TAAL) Video

March 8, 2023 By administrator

During the last thirty years while Azerbaijan and Turkiye systematically planned their invasion of Artsakh and genocidal campaign against the Armenians, they also unleashed an information war just as dangerous as the drones, missiles, and mercenaries on the battlefield.

As part of the Azerbaijan Laundromat, a complex money-laundering operation and slush fund that handled $2.9 billion over a two-year period through four shell companies registered in the UK, Aliyev’s agents used the secrete slush fund to pay off European politicians, journalists, academics, and other stakeholders.

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Meanwhile, Azerbaijan ramped up its public relations campaign with Caviar Diplomacy, employing not one but six of K Street’s heavy-hitting firms, including the Livingston Group, Stellar Jay Communications, BGR, The Podesta Group, and DLA Piper. In just one year, the country spent $1.3 million on lobbying. While some of these firms have since distanced themselves from Azerbaijan, the damage has been done. 

In an article in ‘Medium,’ journalist Casey Michel wrote that in the past two years there have seen a flurry of analyses on Azerbaijan’s moves to whitewash its dictatorial image for American audiences. Slathered in hydrocarbon profits, the autocratic government of Ilham Aliyev has unleashed spin-doctors, duped reporters, and led one of the most brazen pushes to abuse American lobbying loopholes of any foreign government.

Elkhan Suleymanov, an Azerbaijani parliamentarian who Italian prosecutors say is responsible for implementing an aggressive plan to improve the country’s image, is the nation’s de facto publicist-general.

Conversation with Vic Gerami, publisher and editor of The Blunt Post, Truth And Accountability League (TAAL) Fights The Information War For Armenians, https://t.co/Ii1i0LHNBG https://t.co/04LTZPujCH

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) March 8, 2023

The primary phenomenon that has seen certain, cursory coverage, deals with lobbyists on Azerbaijan’s dole penning op-eds on Baku’s greatness — on its stability, on its secularism, on its propensity to provide energy security to a West scouring for non-Russian fuel sources. To be sure, there is, on its face, nothing of necessity wrong with lobbyists pushing op-eds. This remains their prerogative, so long as they can find an acquiescent editor.

However, those lobbying on Azerbaijan’s behalf — and those with ties to Baku’s state energy firm, SOCAR — have built up an impressive track record not simply for pushing their essays on Azerbaijan’s appeal. Rather, they’ve done so without any requisite reveal of their ties to Azerbaijan. Instead of disclosing their financial interests in enhancing Azerbaijan’s reputation, they’ve misled editors and readers alike, posing as disinterested observers instead of those paid to whitewash a country whose civil rights record places it at the bottom of the list of nations.

With unlimited resources, Azerbaijan’s agents set out to distort facts about Artsakh and Armenia, revise history, and launder their authoritarian regime’s reputation. Azerbaijan’s cyber war on Armenians continues with a campaign of hate, dehumanization, and violence on Armenians. And the effects are very obvious everywhere you look.

TAAL FIGHTS THE INFORMATION WAR FOR ARMENIANS

Following the 2020 invasion of Artsakh, journalist, radio host, and documentary filmmaker, Vic Gerami, founded the Truth And Accountability League (TAAL). TAAL is a 501©3 non-profit advocacy organization that monitors and confronts bias, disinformation, propaganda, and defamation of the Armenian people and culture at the level of media, including social media, academics, intelligentsia, and public policy. Gerami modeled and structured the organization after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the LGBTQ+ Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), and The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

TALL had big wins from the beginning. A week after Artsakh invasion on September 27, 2020, Gerami and his colleague Nicole Muj produced the celebrity public service announcement (PSA), ‘I Stand with Artsakh & Armenia,’ with Kim Kardashian, Serj Tankian, Congressman Adam Schiff, Ed Begley Jr., Sally Kirkland, Lawrence Zarian, Andrea Martin, and several other stars. 

Next, Gerami petitioned the City of West Hollywood and Mayor Pro Tempore Sepi Shyne to sponsor a resolution for WeHo to recognize the Independent Republic of Artsakh. The resolution passed unanimously on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Next, he petitioned the City of Burbank to create a resolution to formally recognize the independent Republic of Artsakh. The resolution passed unanimously on March 2, 2021.

Gerami sent his multi-award-winning documentary film, ‘Motherland,’ to all the members of the US Senate and the House of Representatives, members of the British House of Lords and House of Commons, members of the European Union and the Council of Europe. The documentary is an ‘Official Selection’ in (76) film festivals, has won (38) awards, was shortlisted for Film Independent’s ‘Spirit Awards,’ and Oscar-qualified and available in The Academy’s ‘Screening Room.’

‘Motherland’ is an investigative documentary feature film that he wrote, produced, and directed, and was also made under the auspices of TAAL. It’s about Azerbaijan’s, Turkey’s unprovoked genocidal attack on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2020, the massacre of 5,000+ people, and the two nations’ ongoing campaign of hate violence, and disinformation against the indigenous Armenians.

Gerami interviewed and featured seven (7) leading members of Congress, including Congressman Adam Schiff (D–CA), Sen. Bob Mendez (D–NJ), Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA), Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Baroness Caroline Cox, Life Peer Member of the British House of Lords.

TAAL has taken confronted many Azerbaijani offensive actions such as working with the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), and Transport for London (TFL) to have Azerbaijan’s propaganda posters removed from London subway stations in March 2021.

To address Azerbaijan’s comprehensive assaults on everything Armenian, the group has collaborated with the Pan-Armenian National Emergency Committee to organize demonstrations in front of the Azerbaijani Consulate General in Los Angeles and secure media coverage and the American Armenian National Security Institute on their projects. 

Making sure to involve mainstream organizations, TAAL’s has partnered with Lindsay Carlson, president of the Heart of LA Democratic Club, and Jon Katz, president of the Santa Monica Democratic Club, to issue statements supporting Artsakh and the Armenian community. They recently worked with the West Hollywood Mayor Sepi Shyne to release a statement about the anti-Armenian flyers posted in the City of Beverly Hills and neighboring areas. Mayor Shyne also passed a resolution reaffirming the City’s support for the people of Artsakh and the imposition of sanctions and consequences against Azerbaijan on January 23, 2023.

On January 25, the City of Irvine, with the invitation of Vice Mayor Tammy Kim, CA, screened Gerami’s film, ‘Motherland,’ followed by a panel discussion. As a result of the screening, the City Council passed a resolution unanimously to build an Armenian Genocide Memorial in Irvine’s Grand Park.

Anti-Armenian hate crimes, defamation, and Armenophobia are at an all-time high, including in the greater Los Angeles area. But despite working around the clock, and the overwhelming demand to confront Azerbaijan’s aggression, TAAL has had success stories. Just last month, anti-Armenian flyers calling for genocide were posted all over Beverly Hills. Due to Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse’s lackluster and dismissive response, TALL got involved and with strong advocacy, the Mayor agreed to meet with the Mayor of Glendale, Ardy Kassakhian.  

TAAL and other organizations were able to get New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to revise information on artist Ivan Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) to Reflect his Armenian Identity.

But there are countless ongoing challenges and initiates that the organization is busy addressing. They include New York’s Caviar Diplomacy beneficiary Mayor Eric Adams’ directive that no signs about Armenia or Artsakh can be brought to this year’s Armenian Genocide demonstration in Times Square. TAAL also monitors and re-edit Wikipedia listings that have been previously edited by Azerbaijan with disinformation and propaganda. They confront media organizations such as the BBC, CNN, and The New York Times for having ‘strategic partnerships’ with the Azerbaijani government whose objective is to whitewash and control the narrative with the media giants. Azerbaijani Consulate Generals approach local government and fund ‘Azerbaijan Day,’ when they commemorate the so-called Khojaly Genocide in the hands of the Armenians. They also employ full-time American, British, and European journalists to write propaganda articles and do paid placements in various publications. The most prevalent being Azerbaijan’s army of trolls on social media that promote disinformation, hate, and Armenophobia through fake accounts boosting the popularity of anti-Armenian hashtags.

In the last three years, Gerami has also been busy granting interview to various media outlets and publications regarding Armenia and Artsakh, including the Los Angeles Magazine, KUCI 88.9 FM ‘Ask A Leader,’ News of the World, Daily Kos, The Immigrant Magazine’s TV program, Bionic Buzz, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, BEONDTV, Brave New Hollywood, and was featured in Keghart’s ‘Heroes and Villains 2022’ List.

Although a national news and politics program, Gerami has dedicated a great deal of his radio show, THE BLUNT POST with VIC (TBPV), on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica Network) to topics related to the Armenians. His guests have included members of the Congress including the Congressional Armenian Caucus, other high-profile elected officials, and heads of organizations.

Gerami has interviewed many members of Congress and other high-profile elected officials and put them on record about Artsakh and Armenia. Some of them are Senator Bob Menendez, Congressman Adam Schiff (7.19.21) Congressman Adam Schiff (10.19.20), Congressman Adam Schiff (3.30.20), Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Congresswoman Katie Porter, Congressman Tony Cardenas, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and Congresswoman Judy Chu, Congresswoman Karen Bass, Congressman Mark Takano, Congressman Jim Costa, Congressman Gil Cisneros, Congresswoman Norma Torres, Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, Congressman Raul Ruiz + Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, Congressman Alan Lowenthal, as well as Marianne Williamson.   

To find out more about TAAL and to donate so they can continue to fight the information war for Armenians, please visit TruthAndAccountabilityLeague.org

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Conversation with the Founder of the Assyrian Genocide and Research Center (SEYFO Center) Mr. Sabro Bengaro (Video)

February 3, 2023 By administrator

The Assyrian genocide also known as Seyfo, Assyrian for Sword, was the mass slaughter of the Assyrians by Ottoman and irregular Kurdish forces during World War I.

The Assyrian Genocide Research Center, also known as the Seyfo Center, was established in 2003. Wally Sarkeesian founder and Journalist of Gagrule.net we had the pleasure Interviewing Mr. Sabro Bengaro the organization’s founder, who is completing his Ph.D. at The University of Texas University at Dallas. We talked about the Assyrian genocide and Seyfo Center’s recent publication, The History of the Assyrian Nation in the Twentieth Century, with Special Emphasis on the Events of World Wars I and II, written in Assyrian by Koorish Yacob Shlemon and translated into English by Arianne Ishaya, Ph.D.

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Forbidden Homeland, Story of a Diasporan is Katia Tavitian Karageuzian’s vivid memoir, Interview Video

December 27, 2022 By administrator

Forbidden Homeland, Story of a Diasporan is Katia Tavitian Karageuzian’s vivid memoir of the personal journey that helped define her understanding of the Armenian Cause.

In 1988, a chance comment she made at college led to the discovery of long-lost relatives she knew nothing about. The family secrets that surfaced next became the catalyst to a decades-long search for answers she had been looking for since childhood.

Born in Lebanon, Karageuzian draws on her personal accounts of diaspora, and her research on the Armenian Genocide and the Karabakh conflict, to expose buried truths and unveil the geopolitics that consistently stand in the way of justice, and muffle the ongoing wars in Transcaucasia.

Forbidden Homeland is an American story of immigration and the pursuit of happiness, and the story of Diasporas that continue to form because of tyranny and leading nations engaged in power games. It is also a testament to bravery and resilience and the stubborn human will to live in freedom.

The book is now available on Amazon.com Forbidden Homeland in both paperback and Kindle e-book.

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Conversation with Author Katia Karageuzian Forbidden Homeland Story of a Diasporan, The story of how a single innocent comment ended up unlocking answers to a lifetime of ancestral inquiries. https://t.co/bGj2knQVP3

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) December 21, 2022

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Conversation with Historian Ara Papyan, Kocharian, and Sargsyan Are the oxygen Pashinyan exist detail in the Video

November 3, 2022 By administrator

Conversation with Historian Ara Papyan, Kocharian, and Sargsyan Are the oxygen Pashinyan exist detail in the Video

In this episode, we cover a lot from Russian influences on Armenia How Pashinyan crushed the moral value of Armenian by capitulating, and Pashinyan’s pro-Turkish behavior watch the full conversation

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Wally Sarkeesian in Conversation with the Motherland Filmmaker Vic Gerami Video

September 6, 2022 By administrator

A young talented American Armenian Journalist like many Armenian Vic Gerami is frustrated by the world’s silence.

The worst atrocity was launched by Azerbaijan and Turkey on the peaceful people of Armenian Artsakh while the world was preoccupied with the Covid-19 pandemic. Vic with two other friends packs their bags and head to Armenia.

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Wally Sarkeesian in Conversation with the Motherland Filmmaker Vic Gerami https://t.co/eVKCz437Dm

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) September 5, 2022

Here is his story

Written, produced, and directed by Vic Gerami, ‘Motherland’ is a journalistic investigative documentary feature film about Azerbaijan’s, Turkey’s unprovoked genocidal attack on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2020 and the massacre of 5,000+ people, and the two nations’ ongoing campaign of hate, violence, and disinformation against the indigenous Armenians.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I felt different, an outsider, due to my
Armenian ethnicity, national origin, and sexual orientation. These
factors made it challenging to have a clear identity, as I was
keenly aware of being a minority on many levels, marginalized,
and felt at a disadvantage in my community and from my
peers.

When I turned three years old, my parents took me to visit
Armenia and remarkably those early memories and images
remained embedded in my heart from our three-month trip. It was
a life-altering experience that instilled a love for my motherland.
When you feel you don’t belong, you hold on to your roots tightly.
I spent years learning about the 1915 Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenian were
exterminated from their historic homeland by the Ottoman Turks. This ancient land, Armenia,
is historically where Noah’s Ark landed on Mount Ararat, was the first nation to adopt
Christianity as a State religion and the beautiful Armenian highlands were famously
memorialized by William Saroyan in his iconic novels.
It was a shock when on September 27, 2020, Azerbaijan and Turkey unleashed an
unprovoked genocidal assault and ethnic cleansing on the Armenians of Artsakh (Nagorno-
Karabakh) and massacred 5,000+ people in 44 days. It triggered and awakened deep
wounds in Armenian communities worldwide and ignited new trauma. I watched the horrors
of Armenians being slaughtered, beheaded, and violated in unimaginable ways while
witnessing the international community’s deafening silence. truth was not being reported.
It became clear that this 21st-century slaughter taking place needed to be properly
documented and accurately reported. Without hesitation, I packed up and flew to my
embattled motherland to personally interview officials, veterans, experts, and journalists. I
documented precisely how Azerbaijan’s president, Aliyev, and Turkish President Erdoğan – a
pair of dictators and self-professed “brothers” – are pulling the wool over the world’s eyes,
and in the process, getting away with mass murder.
I was determined to make a documentary film aimed at a worldwide audience so that
international viewers would see and experience the extraordinary beauty of Armenia and
Artsakh, understand the context of the unprovoked attack and be eyewitnesses to the
humanitarian catastrophe. ‘Motherland’ is raw, unfiltered, and without compromise.
‘Motherland’ is dedicated to the bright memory of the 5,000+ Armenian martyrs in 2020.

Written, produced, and directed by Vic Gerami, ‘Motherland’ is a journalistic investigative documentary feature film about Azerbaijan’s, Turkey’s unprovoked genocidal attack on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2020 and the massacre of 5,000+ people, and the two nations’ ongoing campaign of hate, violence, and disinformation against the indigenous Armenians.

SYNOPSIS
It took 106 years before the United States formally recognized the Armenian Genocide
of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. On April 24, 2021, President Joe Biden
became the first US president to officially recognize the Armenian genocide and to
recommit to prevent such an atrocity from occurring again. Tragically, history is
repeating itself with Turkey’s ongoing genocidal attack and ethnic cleansing against
Armenians as we’ve witnessed recently in Artsakh. “Motherland” tells the story of this
ongoing tragic chapter through the lens of Armenian-American journalist and LGBTQ+
activist, Vic Gerami.
MOTHERLAND is a 120-minute documentary feature film about Azerbaijan’s, Turkey’s
unprovoked genocidal attack and ethnic cleansing against Armenians of Artsakh, also
known as Nagorno-Karabakh, starting on September 27, 2020. Azerbaijan with the
declared assistance from Turkey reawakened the conflict from dormancy by
launching a large-scale offensive against Artsakh. In its war effort, Azerbaijan relied on
thousands of Turkish-paid jihadist mercenaries airlifted from terrorist camps in Syria,
Libya, and Pakistan, and brought to fight alongside the Azerbaijani Army. The 2020
invasion opened a new chapter in the history of regional warfare and involved
unmatched suffering of the civilian population. For 44 days, the world largely watched
in deafening silence as over 5,000 Armenians were massacred.
With illegal and banned weapons, including cluster bombs and white phosphorus
munitions, the aggressors destroyed towns and villages, indiscriminately killed people
mainly between the ages of 18-21, and occupied approximately 80% of Artsakh.
By November 9, 2020, when a new ceasefire was declared, 100,000 people, 2/3 of
Artsakh’s population was driven out of their ancestral land and made refugees.
Despite calls from bipartisan Congress members to intervene, most of the world stayed
silent. Many nations, mainly in Europe, are heavily invested in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas
and the Caspian pipeline that delivers it to Europe.
Through a journalist and activist’s lens, Motherland focuses the world’s attention on the
atrocities, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed by Azerbaijan and
Turkey against Artsakh and Armenia. It chronicles the struggle of the Armenian people
to come to terms with its fate, mourn the loss more than 5,000 people, and pick up the
pieces and carry on as they have for millennia. It includes interviews with war heroes,
displaced refugees, American and Armenian high-profile elected officials, and
ordinary people.
The film also accounts for the apathy of the greater world community, the hypocrisy of
public figures who preach about human rights but show inaction when reality hits, and
how the press is easily manipulated by a rogue nation’s campaign of hate,
disinformation, and propaganda.

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Conversation with Harut Sassounian, Pashinyan banning top French Armenian Intelectual entering Armenia Video.

July 15, 2022 By administrator

By Wally Sarkeesian,

Conversation with Harut Sassounian, Pashinyan banning top French Armenian Intelectual entering Armenia and why Diaspora Armenian should support Armenia?

Why we Diaspora Armenian need to continue supporting Armenia when eastern Armenian has betrayed us twice, in 1918 western Armenian help created Armenia, and in 1920 the eastern Armenian become communists got in love with linen and Stalin started deporting western Armenian intellectuals to Siberia, and many western Armenian left the country,

The Eastern Armenian 2018 chose a dictator Pashinyan with a fake revolution supported by Turkey they began their hatred of Diaspora Armenian and Artsakh by closing the ministry of diaspora followed by concperacy organized by Pashinyan and Aliyev against Artsakh again a fake war in 2020 by design to fail like Stalin Pashinyan handed most of Artsakh to Azerbaijan. and now Eastern Armenian getting in love with Turks and pushing for the Turkification of Armenia as they did with communism in 1920.

Sassounian response detail in Video

“Papazyan writes” I knew that my entry to Azerbaijan and Turkey was prohibited and now I learned that my entry to Pashinyan’s Armenia is also prohibited. After 40 years of struggle for Armenia, Armenia and Armenian Court, the appearance of such a situation is simply a source of pain.” Nikol Pashinyan This decision is a fact that the responsibility given to him is Not above his height. An is strong when his police station demands the expulsion of an Armenian Court figure, but can you imagine this little leader in front of Erdogan and Aliyev? “Papazyan writes.

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Armenian President Resigns: Another Setback for Armenia Watch Video

January 25, 2022 By administrator

By Harut Sassounian,

I woke up Sunday morning to the shocking, yet not unexpected, news that the President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian, announced his resignation while abroad, most probably in London, after nearly four years in office.

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The President is someone I have known for 30 years. He is a highly-educated man with multiple accomplishments: physicist, computer scientist, successful businessman, diplomat, and politician (former Prime Minister and President of Armenia).

Sarkissian, a native of Armenia, graduated from Yerevan State University with advanced degrees in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. He then became Associate Professor of physics at his alma mater. In 1982, he moved to the UK and became a professor at the University of Cambridge. He subsequently served as the Head of the Department of Computer Modeling of Complex Physical Phenomenon at that university.

In 1991, shortly after Armenia’s independence, Sarkissian became the country’s first Ambassador to London. He served as Armenia’s Prime Minister from November 1996 to March 1997. After recovering from a bout with cancer, he was appointed as Special Advisor to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and as a Governor of EBRD from 1998 to 2000. He served on the Dean’s Board and Advisory Board of Harvard and Chicago universities and several prestigious international organizations.

In 2018, Pres. Serzh Sargsyan recommended Armen Sarkissian to the Parliament to be his successor, shortly before current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came to power who had been critical of his nomination.

Sarkissian became the President of Armenia under the amended constitution which gave him a ceremonial role with no political decision-making power. He had the choice of either approving appointments proposed by Pashinyan and laws passed by the Parliament or submitting them to the Constitutional Court for its determination.

As President, Sarkissian was entrusted with ensuring compliance with the provisions of the Constitution. He had to navigate delicately through Armenia’s highly charged political atmosphere and severely divided society. Despite the limitations of his office, he used his extensive international political and business contacts to promote relations with Armenia and encourage investments from overseas. He visited over a dozen countries, holding high-level meetings during his tenure.

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Meanwhile, Sarkissian was subjected to relentless criticism by Pashinyan’s partisans who never missed an opportunity to undermine his reputation and actions. He was also attacked by opposition groups. Much less understandable was the constant drumbeat by conspiracy-minded Armenians who accused him of being a British spy, without any basis of fact. These individuals must have forgotten that Great Britain is no longer a great power. It lost its vast Empire where the sun never set. Nowadays, Great Britain is a country with its multiple political and economic problems, and is not in a position to meddle in Armenia’s internal affairs.

During a private meeting, I had with Pres. Sarkissian in his office in 2019, he confided to me the constant criticisms and continued attempts to undermine his activities by his detractors.

We all recall that Pres. Sarkissian found out from the following day’s newspapers about Pashinyan signing the statement of capitulation at the end of the Artsakh War on Nov. 9, 2019. Pashinyan did not have the minimum courtesy of letting the President of Armenia know about his grave decision neither before nor after signing that statement.

Pres. Sarkissian tried to overcome the obstacles created by three separate groups: Pashinyan’s partisans in power, the opposition, and the conspiracy-minded crowd. He was severely criticized for objecting to certain orders submitted for his signature by Pashinyan or laws passed by the Parliament’s ruling majority. The biggest outcry was raised in the fall of 2020, shortly after the devastating Artsakh War, when he publicly urged Pashinyan to resign.

In his resignation statement, Pres. Sarkissian complained that he and “sometimes his family are targeted by various political groups. They are not so much interested in the achievements of the presidential institution for the benefit of the country as in my past, various conspiracy theories, and myths. This ‘concern’ for me goes beyond morality, ultimately directly affecting my health.”

Furthermore, in his resignation statement, Pres. Sarkissian pointed out the “paradoxical situation when the President has to be a guarantor of statehood without actually having any real tools. The Constitution also presupposes the supremacy of one institution over another, creates obstacles for well-known Diaspora specialists to participate in the management of state institutions of the historical Homeland, etc…. We are a parliamentary republic in form, but not in content. The purpose of my proposal was not to move from one form of government to another (parliamentary to semi-presidential or presidential), but to create a state system based on checks and balances.”

Explaining his inability to deal with “the current national crisis” in Armenia due to his limited powers, Pres. Sarkissian concluded his statement with a warning that Armenia will find itself “in the margins of history. We have no right to make mistakes anymore!”

According to the Constitution, Alen Simonyan, the Speaker of the Parliament, is now the Acting President until elections are held for a new President, no earlier than 25 days and no later than 35 days from Sarkissian’s resignation.

The Constitution also outlines the process of electing a new President by the Parliament: At least 25% of the Parliament Members have the right to nominate a presidential candidate. Whoever receives at least 75% of the votes of the Members of Parliament is elected President. If no candidate receives 75% of the votes, a second round of elections is held, during which all the candidates who participated in the first round can run. In the second round, the candidate who receives at least 60% of the total number of the Parliament’s votes is elected President. If not, a third round is held, in which the two candidates with the most votes in the second round can run. The candidate who receives the simple majority of the votes of the Parliament is elected President.

The presidential candidate must: Be at least 40 years old, solely an Armenian citizen for the last six years, permanently resided in Armenia for the last six years, has the right to vote, and speaks Armenian. The term of the President is seven years. He or she cannot be reelected.

The new President will be chosen by the Prime Minister’s party members in Parliament as they hold the majority of the seats. My fear is that an unqualified person will be chosen to be the next President just like the other appointments made by Pashinyan, thus confirming once again his preference for partisan politics over national interests. Rather than establishing much needed governmental checks and balances, the choice of a pro-Pashinyan President will further consolidate the absolute power enjoyed by one man, the Prime Minister. He confirmed our worst fears when during his press conference on January 24, 2022, he said: “the President, government, and majority in Parliament must have a political harmony.” In other words, rather than checks and balances, Pashinyan prefers single-handed rule.

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