Opinion
Chidem Inch: Olympics and Artsakh
It is Thursday morning, August 31. Our bags are packed, and we are ready to fly to Washington, D.C. for the AYF Olympics, the annual gathering of AYF members, alumni and families to enjoy back-to-back athletic events and dances and meet friends old and new. The 90-year-old tradition with humble beginnings, held over Labor Day weekend, has grown and flourished into a celebration of being Armenian.
These long weekends have a magic and allure that keep us coming back. There will be the inevitabl
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Hi Mark, thank you for expressing a very level-headed view on the current situation. I was one of the ones to travel to Armenia this summer. I led a group with my entire family. We saw the good, the bad, and the heartbreaking. Armenians in Armenia as well as in the Diaspora need to live their lives or we will eventually succumb to our generations of grief. I keep saying that in times like these it’s imperative we keep our diasporan communities vibrant and healthy. And to those who are critical of the current government and leadership, I say that Pashinyan is doing everything he can to make sure that mothers are not bringing their (young) sons home from the army in body bags. To the critics, I say also you send your son to the frontline instead of on a trip to Europe or Hawaii and then we’ll talk.
Hi Mark
There will come a point where we will either stay on the dock or jump on the drifting boat. Diaspora can stretch itself so much.
Demonstrations for Artsakh is a necessity, altough “not in Azerbaijan”, begs the inevitable question, “but where?”
My friends from Armenia tell me that the demonstration in Yerevan lacked cries for “open the lachin corridor”. It seems it morphed into another anti Pachynian cry, much like from the get go and the demonstrations in Diaspora were painted the same.
Was it in fact so in Yerevan? I do not know
Were the for Artsakh demonsrations in Diaspora, veiled anit Pachynian demonstration also? I also don’t know.
Maybe we all are drifing that will take Armenia, Artsakh, Diaspora somewhere.
Those who live see, says the Armenian saying.