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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – It's been 1 twelvemonth since the taste cleansing of Armenians from Artsakh, oregon Nagorno Karabakh, astatine the hands of Azerbaijan.
This was aft a much than nine-month-long blockade that chopped astir 120,000 radical disconnected from food, energy, and the extracurricular world.
“Seeing the illness of Artsakh gives sorrow to each the Armenians that not lone bask the amusive enactment of being Armenian but besides recognize the existent values of this nation," Fresno State's Armenian Student Organization President Harutyun Amirkhanyan said.
The Berberian Coordinator of Armenian Studies astatine Fresno State, Barlow Der Mugrdechian says that it is 1 of the oldest regions of Armenia.
“It's 1 of the oldest regions of Armenia. It's been continuously inhabited by Armenians for adjacent to 3000 years. It had its ain dialect, its ain past and civilization arsenic portion of the greater Armenian history. So the nonaccomplishment of that colonisation is simply a immense stroke to Armenians," Mugrdechian said.
Amirkhanyan is primitively from Armenia and helium knew radical who fought for Artsakh.
“I felt disheartened. I person a batch of friends from Artsakh. They adjacent took portion successful the war. I mislaid immoderate friends successful the warfare arsenic well. People speech astir equality and stuff, but nobody's that brave to forestall each these massacres taking place,” Amirkhanyan said.
Mugrdechian says this is an contented that shouldn't lone interest Armenians.
“I deliberation it's important for non-Armenians arsenic well. We request to cognize what's happening successful the world, wherefore definite things happen," Mugrdechian said.
The attacks against Armenians 1 twelvemonth agone aren’t lone being remembered by section Armenians but besides by officials.
Congressman Adam Schiff, who is besides the vice seat of the legislature Armenian caucus, helped present the Artsakh Revenue Recovery Act of 2024. It's aimed astatine holding the authorities of Azerbaijan accountable for its unprovoked onslaught and to supply compensation to forcibly displaced Armenians.
“Azerbaijan’s continued actions against the radical of Artsakh person created a humanitarian catastrophe and amounted to taste cleansing," Schiff said. "We indispensable guarantee that those liable are held accountable and that the guiltless victims of Artsakh are compensated for their immense losses.”
Students with the Armenian Studies Program astatine Fresno State are acceptable connected what result they privation to spot - a instrumentality of Armenians to their historical lands.
“They near their homes there. They near their graves, their memories. I would expect the satellite to negociate Azerbaijan, forcing them to let Artsakh radical to instrumentality and unrecorded successful their motherland successful peace," Amirkhanyan said.
On Friday, Sept. 20 astatine 12 p.m., the university's Armenian Student Organization volition clasp an Armenian Independence Day lawsuit astatine the escaped code area. It volition service arsenic a mode for folks to perceive to Armenian euphony and larn much astir Armenian culture.
