I am from Nagorno Karabakh
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Archuk’s Blog suggests fellow Armenians to post a banner that reads “I am Karabakhi” amid some anti-Nagorno Karabakh sentiments among opposition activists in Armenia. The latter often overemphasize the current administration’s roots in the indigenous Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh that has been a de facto independent country after breaking away from Soviet Azerbaijan followed by a war in the early 1990s.
While I have largely protested the current administration’s handling of the March 1, 2008 post-election unrest, I do join Archuk’s call because it hits the real problem that Armenia is facing – intolerance, polarization and disrespect within the society.
In short, I am from Nagorno Karabakh.
Archuk Arshakuni on 16 Mar 2008 at 4:50 pm #
Fair play Blogian, way to go!
Joseph on 17 Mar 2008 at 5:14 pm #
First off: Without Artsakh there is no Armenia.
It’s time for Armenians everywhere to once and for all work together to build Armenia, make it prosper and defend it. This is our one last chance to have a nation. This is it. If it fails we will surely fade away and die.
I think many of us have had enough of our asinine political parties, divided church, regionalism, and petty rivalries of oligarchs not just in Armenia but also in the Diaspora. Our weakness had always been or disunity and our large egos.
Look, as an Armenian one of the worst traits I see in our community is the failure to listen to each other and be patient. All of us seem to act as a general or even a dictator and meanwhile we make all of our judgments based on hindsight and we belittle those who are being proactive and trying to do something.
We never seem to show courtesy and respect to each other and thank those that actually do they groundwork. When we disagree with another Armenian, we attack them and call them stupid. Maybe it is our individualism that is sometimes our worst enemy. I’m sure centuries of being in the Ottoman Empire and then 70 years of Soviet rule did not help.
I’m not sure if there is a solution but this is what I see among Armenians, whether it is the Armenian Parliament or even a small church in the Diaspora.
As is always implied; if there were 3 Armenians left on earth, they would still have a divided church and 10 political parties.
Some of the most senior and supposedly wisest among us act as children and this needs to stop. We will not always agree but we need to put the needs of Armenia before our own squabbles, desires, rivalries, etc.
vartan on 22 Mar 2008 at 8:04 pm #
Joseph
why don’t you reverse your statement as well and say;
“without Armenia there is no Artsakh”?
… and that’s more than true ?