Armenians around the world will be protesting Azerbaijan’s genocidal blockade and demanding justice for Artsakh this weekend on the occasion of Artsakh’s Sept. 2 independence anniversary under the unifying banner: “SOS Artsakh!”
The eastern U.S. “SOS Artsakh!” protest will be held Friday, Sept. 1 during the 89th AYF-YOARF Olympics weekend in Washington, D.C. Protesters will assemble at the Olympics Renaissance Hotel Headquarters at 1 p.m. and march at 1:30 p.m. to Lafayette Park, just north of the White House. The protest starts at 2 p.m.
Signs and flags will be provided for the march and protest, where demands will be directed to U.S. government officials, urging them to act now to end Azerbaijan’s nearly nine-month blockade of Artsakh’s 120,000 men, women and children; airlift humanitarian aid immediately; stop military aid to Azerbaijan; sanction the reckless Aliyev regime for its unpunished war crimes; and champion Artsakh’s self-determination rights.
Those who can be in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Sept. 1 are urged to join the march and protest to show the world that they stand in solidarity with the 120,000 Artsakh Armenians. The Washington protest joins other actions to be held Sept. 1 – 3 including in Armenia, Artsakh, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, London and South America.
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Too little, too late. It’s too late to do anything now. Major geopolitical shifts have begun across the world, and we Armenians effectively maneuvered Armenia right out of contention and straight into a dead end. We are not in any position today to control, or to even influence events. Therefore, what will happen, will happen. And whatever happens, it will be our collective fault. If any of you reading this has at any time spoken against Serj Sargsyan, Robert Kocharyan or Russia, you have contributed to what Armenia and Artsakh are going through today. You got what you wanted in 2018 – a Western financed “democratic” revolution. You then got what you deserved in 2020 – a historic defeat.
People deserve the governments they have. There are no free meals in politics. Political illiteracy has a high cost. Revolutions end up eating their children. You reap what you sow. Karma is a you know what…
It looks like Putin is talking to Prigozhin.
Agreed, many fall into the trap of demonizing Russia. Now we are seeing what breaking free of Russia looks like. It was a stupid move. We had vicious enemies to the east and west. Russia was the only balancing power in the region that kept Armenia secure. On top of it we did not spend the time arming ourselves with modern military equipment (drones, modern anti missle systems) which would’ve helped deter any attack. Pashinyan is the worst politician – instead of staying allied to Russia and in the meantime updating the military he enriched himself, alienates the Russians and gets into war unprepared. He’s either extremely stupid or a traitor.
MARCHES DON’T DO JACK SHIT! IT’S THE LOSER’S AND WEAKLING’S WAY OF FIGHTING WHEN THEY HAVE NO POWER OR STRENGTH! ARMENIA AND ARTSAKH HAD 30+ YEARS TO FORTIFY ITSELF YET SPENT ITS TIME STEALING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THROUGH CORRUPTION AND PLANNING WINE FESTIVALS!
All politicans are corrupt. All societies have problems. Armenia’s main problem during the last 30 years has had to do with our desire to westernize Armenia and bring it out of Russia’s orbit. Remedy: curb western influence (get rid of Nikol and friends, shut down western NGOs, curb diasporan activists working for western interests) and bring Armenia back into Russia’s orbit (as a Belarus or a Chechnya),.and this nightmare will end.
Brothers and sisters!
This isn’t the time for silly protests. We elected our great leader Pashinyan twice for one purpose – free Armenia from those oppressively undemocratic Russians that want to takeover the whole world and stop people from being happy. Our democratically elected leader started the process but not he is not done yet. Please brothers and sisters wait until he completes his task. You can all protest Armenia’s disappearance from the world map afterwards. People, please, now it not the time!
Some of our Sisters and brothers are blindfolded and cannot see the immediate danger of war from Putin, Sultan Erdogan, and Dictator Aliyev against Armenia. These “none Armenian” traitors are mostly paid by Putin’s pocket who want to take Armenia, back to corrupt Roobik and Serjic, and LTP times again with heavy wine-drinking festival parties for Diaspora Armenians, and collect money for their enjoyment, and buy States in the US and European countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3TN1fMVFg
There is well organized and a well funded group of activists in Armenia that do their best to deflect blame from those actually responsible for the hostoric mess Armenia and Karabakh are in today (i.e. Pashinyan and his Western benefactors) and place all blame on the only political entity on earth that keeps Armenia alive (i.e. Russia). Greg was able to flush out one of them on this message board :)
AZERBAIJAN IS PLANNING TO ATTACK WITH ISRAELI WEAPONS, TURKISH INTELLIGENCE, AND PAKISTANI AND ISIS MERCENARIES WHILE ARTSAKH DOES WHAT EXACTLY……..?????? WITH ZERO FIGHTERS, NO MILITARY POWER, STARVING WEAK AND OUT OF SHAPE POPULATION, ARMENIA’S BACK TURNED TO ARTSAKH, AND A WORLD WHO DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT, AZERBAIJAN IS PREPARING TO GO IN FOR THE KILL TO END THEIR ARMENIAN PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. WE ARE WITNESSING THE FINAL DAYS OF ARTSAKH! PROTESTS, RALLIES, AND MARCHES DON’T DO JACK SHIT! GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! IS WHAT KHRIMYAN HAYRIK SAID TO ARMENIANS OVER 100 YEARS AGO, BUT ARMENIANS DID NOT LISTEN, AGAIN, AND ARE BEGGING THE WORLD TO HELP, AGAIN, AND ARE VICTIMS, AGAIN, AND WONDERING WHY THE WORLD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THEM, AGAIN! I THOUGHT IT WAS THE END OF “NEVER AGAIN”!!! UNFORTUNATELY FOR ARMENIANS, WE DON’T LEARN OUR LESSONS!
Armenians don’t deserve an independent country. The evidence is ample. The number of Armenians arriving in Glendale CA is off the charts where they become welfare addicts. Apply to become an autonomous part of Iran, that is your best option.