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Armenia blocks Artsakh movie from nomination for Oscars

In last week’s column, I criticized the government of Jordan for buckling under Azerbaijan’s pressure to withdraw its nomination of a documentary about Artsakh as an Oscars entry.

While it is bad enough that a hostile country like Azerbaijan prevents the nomination of a movie about Artsakh, it is much worse when Armenia itself refuses to present a movie about Artsakh to the Oscars!

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

3 Comments

  1. Until the Armenian traitors are removed there will be no progress…how can you BLAME ANY ENEMY OF ARMENIA WHEN YOU HAVE ARMENIANS BACKSTABBING FELLOW ARMENIANS…WHETHER ITS IN ARTSAHK OR ARMENIANS SELLING THE ARMENIAN QUARTER OUT IN JERUSALEM FOR PROFIT…DONT BLAME THE TURKS OR ISRAEL UNTIL YOUR OWN HOUSE IS IN ORDER…AND ITS EMBARRASSING AND HUMILIATING TO LEARN THAT ITS FELLOW ARMENIANS SELLING OUT OTHER ARMENIANS…

  2. Betrayal is always within. Although after the failure of Arktash it’s all become toxic and embarrassing for Yerevan who wants to forget about the debacle.

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