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20-25 Armenian families lose their homes and businesses because of Hurricane Harvey

September 7, 2017 By administrator

Over 25 Armenian families suffered greatly from Hurricane Harvey, Pastor of  St. Kevork Armenian Church of Houston,

“20-25 families just do not know what to do and where to go. They have lost everything. So far they live with their relatives. The community has begun fund-raising for them,” the priest said.

Assistance to the victims can be provided by clicking on the link.

“The state will help the victims, but will not give full compensation. Therefore, we also raise funds, “the representative of the Armenian community noted.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, homes, Hurricane Harvey

Home destroyed by Azerbaijan but christianity survived, Karabakh family wants peace to return to native village

April 9, 2016 By administrator

Karabakh home destroyedBy Gayane Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Residents of a northeastern Karabakh village were awakened from their sleep on the night of April 2 to face a new reality: the dark sky was lit up by Azeri shells, which turned into a downpour within seconds causing vast devastation to the peaceful community.
“I did not feel very well that night. A sound from outside woke me up. I got up to take medicine for blood pressure. I opened the door to get a cup of water, and heard shots, sounds of explosion,” Safura Iskandaryan, a 52-year-old resident of the village of Talish in the NKR’s Martakert region, emotionally gives her account of the events.

“My husband also got up. We saw that they were shelling the village. They first struck the military unit, and our house is 300 meters away from it. The second strike was further down. Bomb fragments were landing in our garden. We hardly managed to dress my disabled mother and hide in the bathhouse, which we used as a bomb shelter.”

The woman says their family hid in “the temporary shelter” for four and a half hours. She remembers their house being hailed with shots and how they narrowly escaped. Later, she says at the front gate they met Armenian soldiers who ordered them to immediately leave the village.

“You cannot imagine how fast we got in our car, and took with us as many of the villagers as we could: most of them were children, my brother with his grandchild. We already knew that the Azeris were in the village, in the upper district. Those poor people, who were brutally murdered, were living in a house in the upper part. We took 30 people in our car and my husband drove to the village of Mataghis,” says a mother of four kids, repeatedly mixing sequence of events, because of her emotions.

The Iskandaryan family is one of many in Talish who experienced déjà vu on April 2, again feeling the pain and loss of the war on their own skin: they were displaced from their own houses for the second time in 23 years.

Recalling harrowing details of the night, the woman says that they got into a terrible bombardment in the village of Mataghis. They saw how the Mataghis power station was blown up by a Grad multiple rocket launcher system used by Azerbaijanis.

“It was like watching a movie. Children were crying and adults were screaming: ‘Edo jan, save us, drive forward, they are shooting.’ My poor husband was shouting: ‘I am not worrying about me, what shall I do with these children?…” We hid around a hill in our car, and when the enemy soldiers were busy with charging their guns, we were able to flee. We looked back at the houses for soldiers’ families and saw them collapsing like in a movie. We reached the village of Maghavuz, where gunshots were heard, too. Cars were rushing out of the village. Everyone was trying to save their families,” she says.

The Iskandaryans, together with other villagers, moved to Armenia, and got to their relatives’ homes.

The village of Talish, which is home to about 500 people, is one of the oldest villages of Artsakh. As a result of hostilities, most of the village, which is not far from the line of contact, was destroyed. The village’s administrative building, its school, kindergarten, and other infrastructures were bombed. Dozens of houses were leveled to the ground. It was on the night of April 2 that the rival soldiers shot dead two Talish civilians, Valera Khalapyan and his wife Razmelay, and cut their ears. They also killed 92-year-old Marusya Khalapyan.

Iskandaryan says that they robbed the houses of the village, took away computers, different electrical gadgets, the mobile phones of the villagers.

“There were people, who managed to escape just in pajamas. At such critical moments people just want to flee and save their life. The largest shop in the village was mine. Now my husband is there and says that they have taken everything. The villagers of Talish need help to be able to get back on their feet,” she says.

NKR Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan, visiting the town of Martakert, and the villages of Mataghis and Talish on April 6, said that the government will do its utmost to help to quickly reconstruct the residents’ houses and community infrastructure damaged in the bombardment. The prime minister said that within a few days Ministry of Urban Development specialists will inventory all the damage in order to start the restoration work as soon as possible.

Iskandaryan says that farmers are constantly calling each other to ask whether they are going to return to the village or not.

“The answer is one: if the village is reconstructed, they will be happy to return. The village had been destroyed during the war, but during those 23 years we re-built Talish. The village guests used to say: ‘what a lovely and rich village it is’. We were accustomed to living under the shootings, but not like this. We were afraid of only commando raids that had become frequent, but not of shootings,” she says.

The villagers of Talish dream to return to their homes, to live, to create. Iskandaryan is worried: her daughter and husband plowed the land and they were going to start sowing maize in a few days.

“How can it be? We’re so happy with our soldiers. We knew that if they were there, then we were safe and could sleep tight. But now I cannot imagine that I can go there again, and go to bed peacefully. I do not believe that there is a ceasefire. One cannot trust an Azeri. Today, they say that everything is alright, but later they fire at you in the back. I will go and check myself how strong the positions are, and only then I will return to Talish. We want peace,” says Iskandaryan.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: destroyed, family, homes, Karabakh

4 Kurdish civilians killed after home shelled by Turkish army reports

April 6, 2016 By administrator

5704f7c6c36188360e8b459cFour civilians were killed after their house was bombed in the Kurdish city of Silopi, Turkey, the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA) reported. The shelling by Ankara forced many residents to flee the area, according to social media reports.

The four victims were from the same family, among them a 70-year-old woman, according to Ferhat Encü, an MP from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who represents Silopi.

A photo posted online showed smoke billowing from the premises.

Two neighborhoods in the city have been emptied by security forces, and people are being detained at various locations, Encü said. He added that heavy clashes between security forces and PKK fighters are taking place in both of the neighborhoods which are being evacuated.

“There are a lot houses being [set] on fire. People are being forced to leave their homes. They are being beaten,” Encü said.

Twitter user @biliyorlar reported that authorities are forcibly evacuating people from their homes using water cannon, even though they have no place to go. He added that tanks are continuing to fire.

It comes just one day after a curfew was imposed on Silopi, following an attack on an armored police vehicle that left one officer dead and four injured. The curfew was announced to residents via loudspeakers mounted on minarets and police vehicles.

PHOTO: Scale of destruction in Kurdish town of İdil (Hezex) in Şırnak province, after 44 days of military curfew. pic.twitter.com/K1Or3H2j5W

— Turkey Untold (@TurkeyUntold) April 6, 2016

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: army shelled, homes, Kurd, Turkey

Tesla batteries to power entire homes out soon – Elon Musk

February 13, 2015 By administrator

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Tesla Motors says its ambitious plan to produce battery packs strong enough to power houses will be reality within six months. The promise comes as the company revealed lower-than-expected sales figures for Model S vehicles.

“We are going to unveil the Tesla home battery, the consumer battery that would be for use in people’s houses or businesses fairly soon,” company’s CEO Elon Musk said during the latest earnings call, adding that the design stage of the product is over.

The new type of battery is likely to be unveiled in the next “month or two,” Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel stated, adding that the idea is “really great” and “I’m really excited about it,” without further elaborating on the details of the desig

The idea was mentioned last year as well, when Musk said he had something planned that would be placed in people’s homes and not their cars.

READ MORE: Apple set to battle Tesla with California mystery van?

“We are trying to figure out what would be a cool stationary [battery] pack,” Musk said. “Some will be like the Model S pack: something flat, 5 inches off the wall, wall-mounted, with a beautiful cover, an integrated bi-directional inverter, and plug and play.”

The announcement came amid a somber sales outlook for the automaker, with latest figures falling short of predictions. Tesla shipped just 9,834 Model S vehicles in the fourth quarter, falling short of 11,200 total, which the company projected to deliver. Overall, Tesla assembled nearly 12,000 cars during the quarter.

Following the news, firm’s shares dropped 4.6 percent on Thursday, with Tesla posting $0.13 loss per share versus the expected profit of $0.32 per share in the fourth quarter.

Earlier in December, Musk tried to attract Chinese auto buyers to boost sales by announcing a trade-in program that would give shoppers a discount on a $100,000 Tesla car if they brought in their old car.

READ MORE: Elon Musk to Chinese auto buyers: Trade in old car for discount on $100k Tesla

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: batteries, homes, tesla

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