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.
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By questioning the Genocide, Pashinyan encourages Turkish and Azeri denialists

There has been much debate recently among Armenians about Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s controversial statements regarding the Armenian Genocide. Pashinyan’s…

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Pashinyan falsely claims former leaders recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan

The ambassador of France to Armenia, Olivier Decottignies, who had been taking strong pro-Armenian positions, surprised everyone last week by…

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Voting against the new constitution is the best way to get rid of Pashinyan

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced last week that he has ordered the preparation of a new constitution, which will…

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Does the Armenian parliament speaker prefer that all Artsakh Armenians were killed?

Top Armenian government officials have crossed all red lines. After giving away Artsakh, they are now endangering the existence of…

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Pashinyan rejects committing crime of Armenian Genocide denial

Ever since Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s disgraceful attempt to raise unnecessary questions about the facts of the Armenian Genocide to…

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Pashinyan again makes anti-Armenia and anti-Diaspora statements

The biggest tragedy for Armenians worldwide is that Armenia is ruled by a prime minister who is not only incompetent…

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Lobbyist for genocide denialist Turkey should donate earnings to Armenians

Former Congressman Robert Livingston published a commentary in the Wall Street Journal last week asking outgoing U.S. Attorney General Merrick…

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Aliyev the wolf vs. Pashinyan the lamb: It is clear who will devour whom

There seems to be no end to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s concessions to Azerbaijan’s demands. The only end will be…

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My Turn

Lladro produces ‘Karabakh horse’ porcelain figurines as propaganda for Azerbaijan

Regrettably, the only things that matter in this world are money and power. All the other issues that naïve people…

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Letters by Armenian Genocide eyewitnesses should be published in several languages

Last month, I wrote an article about the 8,000 letters that the Armenian survivors of the (Ottoman) Hamidian massacres of…

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