Artsakh & The Tragedy of Indifference

 

Today the Armenian nation is facing the serious calamity of extermination in Artsakh, if Armenians in the “Diaspora” do not mobilize their full potential to save an enclave whose population has been the target of a relentless military onslaught since September 27, 2020.

It is true that many Armenians in the Diaspora contributed significant amount of money to support the Government of Armenia in its efforts to keep the dark shadow of an ethnic cleansing away from Karabagh.

While financial support has a crucial role in winning a war, it remains one element in the complex modern warfare where several factors must be taken into consideration, the tactical and strategic importance of each must be properly assessed and coordinated, and last but not least, Diaspora and Hayrenik must focus on an issue that has been poorly addressed in international forums and media outlets.

The issue I am referring to is the Azeri success in controlling the narrative that every website, every media outlet, every news release is repeating time and again: “Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but is populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians.”

Very rarely you find an article designed to remind a foreign audience that the international community has been endorsing and legitimizing, implicitly and explicitly, the work of a “Butcher” named Joseph Stalin who decided almost a century ago, that   the best way to safeguard the interests of The Soviet Union is by dismembering Soviet Armenia, placing Artsakh under the administrative rule  of Azerbaijan, and thus delivering to Ataturk and his nationalist movement, the solid evidence that the Soviet Union, unlike Tsarist Russia is fully dedicated to the survival of new Turkish Republic.

This Blog will dedicate most of its pages to the full review of the historical facts surrounding the arrangements adopted by Stalin. We will argue that Armenia had no choice but swallow the bitter pill Stalin shoved down the throat of the Armenian leaders who reluctantly accepted the tragic severing of their territory.

We will point out very aggressively to all foreign audiences that a crime committed by Stalin to buy the loyalty of Soviet Azerbaijan and Nationalist Turkey, cannot gain legitimacy simply because Armenia was forced to accept two options: sign the treaty or perish from the face of the earth, if not by the bullets of The Red Army invading Yerevan, consider a more painful death with the bayonets of The Turkish Nationalist Army.

A bank robber, turned revolutionary, and eventually a Soviet leader shaped the destiny of a nation a century ago. Today Diaspora and Hayrenik should stand together to prevent a new genocide and insist to Azerbaijan, Turkey, The United Nations that a triumvirate composed of a Petro Dictator (Aliyev), a neo Ottoman maniac (Erdogan) and an appeaser named António Guterres-Secretary-General of the United Nations, will not dictate the new destiny of Artsakh. This time we will not stand idle and be forced to consent for the “Unacceptable”. We will die with honour and we will drag with us to hell every invader determined to send us to hell.

 We will constantly remind Mr. Guterres that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal, and there was nothing “Just” about the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia. Like minded appeasers endorsed his crimes and provided international legitimacy.

To our so called “Allies” and “Friends” we will insists a solidarity confined to lip service not only highlights their hesitancy to do anything constructive, but paves the way for the enemies of Artsakh to buy more time, to regroup, and attack again.

To any Armenian living in The Diaspora, we will emphasize the argument that if an Armenian failed to discover a cause to die for, now that the fatherland and Artsakh are facing the possibility of another “Genocide”, his/her failure and indifference will contribute tremendously to the successes that our enemies will score if we do not act and act fast and furious.

We will wrap up our first maiden article with a statement attributed to The Civil Rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr:

“Our Lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”

Artsakh is facing an existential tragedy and we cannot afford to remain silent. To coexist as Diaspora and Fatherland, the Hayrenik/Armenia/Artsakh must exist first.

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