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Garen Yegparian
Asbarez Columnist
Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.
Latest posts by Garen Yegparian (see all)
- Drones for Armenia - November 15, 2022
- So Sad, Too Far Gone - November 7, 2022
- Pomposity to Mask Ineptitude - October 31, 2022
Artsakh has a much better case for independence (history, demographics, repression, legalities) than these other regions and other recently independent states – though I do not mean to disparage their own cases in any way.
In regards to what we should do is the following. First of all recognition of Artsakh is not necessary, since Artsakh has been independent for 25 years, the Armenian Government has failed to incorporate Artsakh as part of it’s Historic Lands that Stalin & Kemal Attaturk carved up among the Soviets & Turks that nobody seems to bring forth & especially the corrupt Armenian Government & this must change whereby our Armenian Organizations in the outside world must wake up & put pressure on the Armenian Government.
I wonder if there needs to be a universally accepted condition or modification of the law that “self determination” of a people should only be valid for an indigenous people on their ancestral land and in which they have been a nation before in history. Otherwise, there will be chaos in the world and conflicts will be never ending. Then there is the problem of a people who commit Genocide (Kurds) against an indigenous population (Armenians) and now try to claim a nation (Western Armenia).