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Armenia’s Founding Parliament leader Sefilian writes another letter, mentioning 4 demands

August 6, 2016 By administrator

sefilianYEREVAN. – Armenia’s Founding Parliament radical opposition group member Jirair Sefilian has sent another letter from Vardashen criminal-executive institution, where he refers to the demand of President Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation and further process of struggle.

“The misinformation which was circulated a few days ago by [Karabakh MP] Vitaly Balasanyan on that the Sasna Tsrer [armed group] members and I have abandoned the demand of Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation, was immediately dismissed both by the representatives of the Sasna Tsrer group and me two days later.

Unfortunately, that misinformation continues to be circulated, this time, however, by the opposition figure, dear Nikol Pashinyan. The latter points out to my letter sent on July 31, saying that I didn’t “raise the demand of Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation” there. Unfortunately, he has misunderstood the content of the letter, specifically failing to notice the introductory paragraph, where it is apparently mentioned that the content of this letter exclusively refers to the proposal of possible negotiations as a happy medium, as a result of which the [armed group] members were to lay down their arms. I reiterate, it exclusively referred to laying down the arms by the members and preventing bloodshed.

Being in isolation and not fully disposing of the information, I thought of such a strategy to prevent bilateral bloodshed, and I don’t know, there might be another man or Nikol Pashinyan, who might find another way to prevent that danger.

Considering that this false information was dismissed that day by the Sasna Tsrer members and I learnt about Varuzhan Avetisyan’s speech at the moment of laying down the arms, and also read the 7-point demands mentioned in an interview given by Founding Parliament President Garegin Chookaszian to CivilNet, I accept Nikol’s conclusion with perplexity.

Going ahead and taking advantage of the occasion, I urge Nikol and opposition members to perceive the seriousness of the moment and do everything possible to make meaningful Sasna Tsrer’s sacrifice, our insurgent peoples’   readiness to sacrifice and, above all, the unity and solidarity with each other.

In order not to leave the movement without leaders, I urge to form various supra-party formats and rush to liberate our country as soon as possible.

Finally, I will try to re-edit the political agenda raised by us in the recent years, as well as the pan-Armenian political objective agenda of Sasna Tsrer’s demands in the following sequence:

1. Set free PoWs and political prisoners

2. Formation of confidence government /with anti-crisis and transfer phase program/

3. Serzh Sargsyan’s removal

4. Snap parliamentary and presidential elections

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: another, letter, Sefilian, writes, Yerevan

Decapitation and War Crimes: Azerbaijan Gets Another Pass

April 11, 2016 By administrator

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Imagine, for a moment, that you are a parent who last week buried your son—a soldier killed by Azerbaijani forces during a massive attack on the Nagrono-Karabakh Republic. Imagine you are the same parent who is forced to re-inter your son because you’ve just received his decapitated head after the International Committee of the Red Cross reclaimed it from Azerbaijan in an exchange of dead soldiers.

That was the case for the Sloyan family of the Artshavan village in central Armenia. Their son, Kyaram, who would have turned 20 on April 27, was part of a unit stationed in Martakert and was killed and reportedly decapitated by Azerbaijani soldiers. His headless body was buried on April 4. The disturbing images of his head made the rounds on social media last week posted by Azerbaijanis who celebrated Sloyan’s brutal death as a victory.

Then there was the elderly couple in Talish. They were brutally murdered in their home and their ears were cut off as trophies by the Azerbaijani armed units. Those pictures also made the rounds on social media to sensitize international observers of the tactics employed by the Azerbaijanis during their latest attacks on Artsakh.

The Armenian Defense Ministry is accusing Azerbaijan of wide-spread war crimes, after seeing the ICRC-mediated exchange of bodies.

Yet the international community has, once again, opted to give Azerbaijan another pass for its well-documented savagery, which has been on display since the beginning of the Karabakh conflict. From Sumgait, to Kirovabad, to Baku and Maragha and Shahumian Azerbaijan has shown the world what kind of brutality its soldiers are capable of. The silence or lack of reaction has emboldened Azerbaijan to use such violence as a cornerstone of its military strategy.

At a press conference on Saturday in Yerevan, the US Co-chairman of the OSCE Minks Group. James Warlick, said that he and his colleagues were “disturbed” by reports of brutality on the frontline and went on to regurgitate the same old assertion that the sides must sit down to negotiate for a lasting peace in that region.

Russia, on the other hand, was more hands on in its decision to turn a blind eye on Azerbaijan’s atrocities. It’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov traveled to Baku to shake the hand of the perpetrator Ilham Aliyev, while it prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev went to Armenia to promise that Russia would continue selling Azerbaijan weapons, which are then used against Armenians in Artsakh.

The world also quietly watched as Ramil Safarov used an ax to murder the Armenian soldier Gurgen Markarian. When Safarov was handed back to Azerbaijan, which welcomed him as a hero, the world community was retrained in its condemnation.

As both sides are being pressed by mediators and world leaders to refrain from escalating military operations, families like the Sloyans have to live with the brutality that befell their son and await news of future such incidents, because for the Warlicks of the world such savagery is an inconvenience in their quest to advance a “peace plan” that is skewed to Azerbaijan’s favor that they are willing to give Baku yet another license to kill.

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Terrorist State of Turkey Threatens Armenia With “Another Armenian Genocide”

April 5, 2016 By administrator

Erdogan with GenocideNewsWire.com
April 4 2016

Turkey Threatens Armenia With “Another Armenian Genocide”

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai

Turkey are to begin military operations against the Republic of
Armenia – just a century after they attempted to wipe the country off
the face of the earth in the brutal killing of 1.5 million of its
citizens in what is known today as the Armenian Genocide.

According to Russian intelligence sources Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan has voiced concerns that the 3 million population
nation of Armenia has become the “greatest threat to world peace”, and
has vowed to “do something about it”.

Whatdoesitmean.com reports:

Once gaining their own nation, however, this report notes, Armenia was
forced to come to the aid of the Christian Armenian’s living in the
Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Islamic Republic of Azerbaijan—who had
vowed, since 1988, to eliminate Christianity from their borders
altogether, and which led to the Nagorno-Karabakh War that ended in
1994 with a death toll over 30,000 and the displacement of nearly 1
million more.

Though this war has remained a “frozen conflict” for the past 22
years, MoD experts in this report say, this past week it became “hot”
when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan traveled to his $100
million American palace outside of Washington D.C. to meet with his
paid Mercury LLC lobbyists—who then immediately began warning US
politicians that the 3 million populated Christian nation of Armenia
had now became the greatest threat to world peace known in our times.

Within hours of Erdogan’s US lobbyists from Mercury LLC giving such an
outlandish and absurd warning, this report continues, Turkish backed
Azerbaijan launched a “massive attack” with tanks, artillery and
helicopters against the Armenian protected Christians in the
Nagorno-Karabakh region with their Russian Ambassador, Polad
Bulbuloglu, stating “The attempts of a peaceful solution to this
conflict have been underway for 22 years. How much more will it take?
We are ready for a peaceful solution to the issue. But if it’s not
solved peacefully then we will solve it by military means”—a statement
fully backed by Erdoğan too.

With Turkey being the key supplier of weapons and military hardware to
the Islamic State terrorists for the genocide of Christians in Iraq
and Syria, the MoD says in this report, Armenia’s President Serzh
Sargsian ordered his foreign ministry to “draft a treaty on mutual
military assistance with Nagorno-Karabakh” to protect these Christians
from “Erdoğan’s wrath” lest these Christians suffer the same fate.

Vice speaker of Russia’s State Duma (lower house of parliament) Sergei
Zheleznyak further warned that Turkey was the “third force” behind the
war developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, this report
continues, describing them as a provocation—which back in February,
NATO stated it was growing “nervous” about should Erdoğan’s
provocations against Christians erupt into a full scale war with
Russia.

NATO’s fears are, indeed, justified, this report notes, (and as we had
previously reported on) after President Putin, this past November
(2015), ordered thousands of additional Federation military forces to
Armenia should Erdoğan attempt the war moves he has begun this past
week against the Christian Armenian peoples living in
Nagorno-Karabakh.

And as to exactly why Erdoğan, and his son Bilal who funds ISIS, are
intent on igniting a war in Nagorno-Karabakh, this report concludes,
is due to the ongoing talks between Russia and the Obama regime to
coordinate their attack on the Turkish supported Islamic State capital
of Raqqa (in northern Syria) which the US is preparing for a massive
increase of Special Forces troops to conduct—and if successful, would
destroy Turkey’s dream of Middle East dominance and cost them millions
of dollars.

Sorce: http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg568783.html

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: another, Genocide, threatens, Turkey

Three weddings and a fuel subsidy as Armenia’s electricity protests spread #ElectricYerevan

July 1, 2015 By administrator

Protest-wedding

By Karena Avedissian ‏@KarenaAv Jun 28

President’s offer to finance price hikes does little to quell the fervour as thousands of demonstrators remain on the streets. EurasiaNet.org reports

There have been both kisses and water cannons; three wedding celebrations and a barrage of injuries. The protests against electricity price hikes in Armenia’s capital, now in their third week, just refuse to go away despite a significant government concession.
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Thousands of mainly young Armenians remain on the streets of Yerevan surrounding the presidential palace, and smaller demonstrations have spread to the towns of Gyumri, Vanadzor, Kapan and Sisian.

The #ElectricYerevan protests have become “a multi-headed dragon” for President Serzh Sargsyan’s administration, said independent analyst Saro Saroian. “After decapitating one head, another one grows immediately in its place.”

That is essentially what happened on 27 June when some protesters accepted Sargsyan’s offer to subsidise the hugely unpopular tariff rise that sparked the protests – and a far larger group elected to stay on the streets.

Addressing the crowd as “my dears”, Sargsyan, a veteran politician who has faced down more than a few rebellions in his seven years in office, urged the group to listen to his “friendly appeals” for a solution. He said that having police disperse protesters from downtown Yerevan “is not our aim”.

Hundreds of citizens have been arrested in the protests so far and journalists have had their equipment smashed. The use of water cannon on unarmed civilians led to condemnation from human rights groups .

The president’s overture essentially split the protest between a few hundred who agreed with the government’s proposal and left Baghramian Avenue for nearby Liberty Square, and many more who stayed put.
Meanwhile, the protests have been taking an increasingly jubilant tone, with three couples choosing the streets of Yerevan as their wedding venue.

“This is the result of a civilian struggle over the past two to three years, when thousands of people were mobilised. Not a crowd, but an organised fight, and a national fight, when the citizens know their rights,” said Saroian.

One demonstrator, 32-year-old psychologist Anush Badalian, said that experiences after the fall of the Soviet Union, when the economy and energy sector collapsed and Armenia fought a brutal, six-year war with Azerbaijan over the still-disputed territory Nagorno-Karabakh, fuelled protesters’ refusal to back down.

“We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards. Nothing scares us because we are used to hardships and fights,” Badalian said.

Ruben Mehrabian, a political analyst at the Armenian Center for National and International Studies in Yerevan, advises caution.

“At the moment, there is not the power [among the protesters] to serve as an alternative to the current government. But that does not mean that it will not appear in the future,” Mehrabian said. “Everything is still ahead.”

Stepan Danielian, head of the Collaboration for Democracy Center, warned that the protests may rnf in disappointment.

While even more Armenians on the streets could prove decisive, “public structures and mechanisms to make decisions must be developed,” he said.

“Even if Serzh Sargsyan resigns and the [ruling] Republican Party is dissolved, by that alone, problems are not solved. New Serzh Sargsyans will be born. The problem is more radical [than that].”
At the heart of the protests is the government’s perceived tradition of looking out for its business buddies: in this case Electric Networks of Armenia, owned by the Russian company Inter RAO, which has close ties to the Kremlin.

Demonstrators are furious over reports such as Transparency International Armenia’s, which claimed that the company spent 450 million-drams (about £600,000) on luxury cars.

To address that anger, the government has suggested that civil society and the opposition help appoint auditors and has not excluded the possibility of selling or nationalising the utility company.

But some analysts believe these proposals do not go far enough to address the underlying resentment.

“The post-Soviet system in Armenia, which by itself represents the Russian-style system of vertical corruption, does not work anymore,” said Mehrabian, a political analyst at the Armenian Center for National and International Studies. “It has expired, [yet] it is impossible to exchange its existence [for something else].”

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The absence of an alternative could prove reassuring to Moscow, which has been watching the protests for signs of a repeat of the Ukrainian revolution. Little have come, with demonstrators denying they are aiming at Russia, Armenia’s closest ally.

Moscow’s recent decision to allow an Armenian court to try a Russian soldier charged with the murder of a family in the town of Gyumri appeared to be a bid to deflect anger away from the Kremlin. The rumour on the streets is that the decision only demonstrates how much Moscow understands their power.

A version of this article originally appeared on EurasiaNet.org, part of the New East network

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: another, Electric, three, Wedding, Yerevan

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