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Azerbaijan invades Parukh village, deadly attacks on Artsakh ongoing

Azerbaijan has seized the village of Parukh in Artsakh, while two Armenian soldiers have been killed in ongoing attacks using combat drones.

Artsakh Defense Army officials report that on March 24, Azerbaijani forces took control of Parukh in the region of Askeran. Women and children were evacuated from the nearby Khramort village following the Azerbaijani advance. Azeri troops did not retreat after Russian peacekeepers and state bodies of Artsakh held negotiations to persuade the soldiers to return to their starting positions. 

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Lillian Avedian

Lillian Avedian is the assistant editor of the Armenian Weekly. She reports on international women's rights, South Caucasus politics, and diasporic identity. Her writing has also been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Democracy in Exile, and Girls on Key Press. She holds master's degrees in journalism and Near Eastern studies from New York University.

8 Comments

  1. Where is the “international community”? A legitimate question, to which we unfortunately know the answer. They do nothing.

    1. WHY DO YOU CRY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY? WHY? WHY DOESNT ARMENIA PROPER REQUEST A WORLD WIDE ARMENIAN BODY MEETING WHERE ARMENIAN REPRESENTAIVES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD FLY IN TO CREATE A UNITED WHOLE THAT COMES UP WITH A LASTING SOLUTION FOR A POTENT WORLD CLASS ARMY, SECURITY, PROSPERITY AND POWERFUL ECONOMY. THIS PLAN WILL WORK. CRYING TO 3RD PARTY THAT CAN CARE LESS IS USELESS. BTW THE CURRENT ARMENIAN PM PRETENDING IS EQUALY USLESS. NOTICE HOW SILENT HE IS? HE CAN CARE LESS. HE IS ALL TOO GLAD TO GIVE AWAY ANCIENT ARMENIAN LANDS. WHAT A COWARD HE IS. HE IS THE PROBLEM. NEEDS TO BE RID IMMEDIATELY. BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

  2. What happened to Prime Minister Pashinyan’s so-called Խաղաղության Դարաշրջան or “The Age of Peace”?

    Given the fact that insanity is commonly defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, we can safely assume that the current dysfunctional Armenian government has long gone insane. They have been preaching peace with the enemy ever since their disastrous conduct of the 2020 terroristic war imposed on the Armenians while the enemy continues its belligerent criminal activities incessantly and with impunity and not just against Artsakh but Armenia as well. While the Armenian so-called foreign minister was in Ankara shaking the hands of terrorist Turkish devils in the name of peace their racist anti-Armenian Azerbaijani proxy was conducting attacks on defenseless Armenian population in border regions and planning further invasions and occupations of Armenian villages.

    When will this incompetent government either sober up and see the reality for what it actually is and conduct itself honorably, an attribute that has long been absent from their leadership, and quit fooling the population with hollow illusions of peace by mobilizing the nation and give response to the enemy in kind OR by cutting their losses and admit that this job is way above their pay grade and that they lack much needed competency in running a country, let alone a country in a constant state of war, and resign and leave the job to those who know how to handle the enemy like they had done in the past. The longer these inexperienced and delusional sorry excuse for leaders stay in power the longer this situation will continue and will get even worse because the enemy’s intention is not peace by any means but the total demilitarization and depopulation of regions heavily populated by indigenous Armenians. Didn’t we learn our lessons in the recent past when the enemy cunningly fooled the international community falsely advocating for peace by attending “peace” conferences to buy time to prepare for war? The enemy wants this government to stay in power because in it they have found a fat and lazy cash cow that they will continue milking until it goes completely dry and all of that at the expense of the Armenian population at large and because of the politically ignorant and gullible sector of the Armenian population that voted this treasonous government into power.

    1. In my opinion, the treacherous and cowardly Armenian authorities have not learned anything. In my opinion, they squandered the lives of thousands of young conscripts. Instead of taking action themselves to defend the nation, they seek to use someone else’s hand to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. Remember how when thousands of Armenians rushed to volunteer at the outset of the 44 day war, these authorities turned them away. Drones or no drones, we could have won that war. We had to win that war. I am disgusted and ashamed.

  3. Armenians have drones too. I remember clearly when they were used during the 4 day war. That all changed when Pashinyan the traitor came to power. Armenia was the security guarantor of Artsakh. Not anymore.

  4. I don’t always mean to be so harsh, especially regarding Pashinyan. We need solutions more then anything. No room for negativity.

  5. Thanks Lilian, It is almost a year that we recommended the government Armenia to reciprocate initiatives by Iran toward supporting Armenia, Admittedly initiatives to support Armenia. But, We have not seen a tangible action, and firm response from Armenia. Considering preoccupation of current Peacekeepers of Artsakh with another conflict in West, Wouldn’t it be wise to seek support from South and consolidate the multi-dimensional relationships?

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