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harminuya · 10 hours
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Paradise Lost series by Valery Melnikov, 2020.
Local resident Anushavan stands in a pomegranate garden in the courtyard of his house. In his hand is an old Kalashnikov assault rifle, which he kept from the first Karabakh war.
Abovyan Hasmik cries in the doorway of her house in the village of Nerkin Sus, Nagorno-Karabakh.
Local resident Areg sits near a burning house in the village of Karegah.
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harminuya · 13 hours
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i miss armenia 
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harminuya · 2 days
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Armenian dance performed at the Parc de la Culture & du Repos, 1937-1942. Museum of Mankind, Paris.
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harminuya · 3 days
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Medieval rock hewn tomb in Armenia's Ohanavan.
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harminuya · 3 days
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Money Bag by Mary Zakarian Alexanian, 1800s.
Worcester Art Museum.
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harminuya · 4 days
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1/2. Tamar Cormick (née Daoudian).
3. William and Tamar and family, c.1867.
4. William with his wife, Tamar (at right).
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harminuya · 4 days
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I will never get over the fact that thousands of Armenians were massacred in 2020. The grief that has been left behind in their passing. The lives they were meant to live. I shouldn’t be seeing graves marked with the dates “2001-2020”.
These people were not killed in a war, they were killed in a genocide. They were murdered defending their native land against colonizers. Those who seek to use and destroy our land for its natural resources. Those who wish to see Indigenous populations destroyed or Turkified.
Armenians have been resisting genocide and Turkification since the Turks entered our highlands in the 10th century.
I understand the complexities of many Azerbaijani’s and today’s Turks being mixed with the indigenous populations of our region— including Armenians. However, that acknowledgment can only go so far when they choose to identify with the colonizing group, and commit genocide against indigenous people that resisted assimilation. When you choose to identify with the colonizer, when you take on their identity, you become them. You are them.
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harminuya · 4 days
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1920 Shushi Massacre Laid the Foundation for Azerbaijan-Karabakh Conflict
On March 23, 1920 troops of the newly-founded Republic of Azerbaijan, joined by Azerbaijani inhabitants of Shushi began a systematic massacre of Armenians living in what was then the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh.
For three days, the Armenian population was not spared and the city turned into an inferno as Azerbaijanis burned some 2,000 structures in an effort to level the city and rid it of its Armenian inhabitants.
On Monday, to mark the 100th anniversary of this brutal page in Armenian history, the Artsakh Foreign Ministry issued an announcement saying that the 1920 Sushi Massacre laid the foundation for the current Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict, which saw a modern-day repeat of the 1920 events when Azerbaijani forces and citizens massacred Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovabad, Baku and Shahumyan, among other cities beginning in 1988.
Below is the Artsakh Foreign Ministry announcement.
One hundred years ago, on March 23, 1920, the authorities of the newly created Azerbaijani Democratic Republic massacred the Armenian population of Shushi, the then administrative and cultural center of Artsakh, the Foreign Ministry of the Artsakh Republic said in a statement.
As a result of this heinous crime, thousands of Armenians were killed, tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and the Armenian part of the city was looted, burned and completely destroyed. The surviving Armenian residents of Shushi, who made up the majority of the city’s population, were completely expelled. Most of the once beautiful Armenian city was in ruins for many years. The enormous cultural heritage of Shushi was destroyed.
The scale and cruelty of this crime struck the contemporaries who visited Shushi immediately after the massacre and noted that the wells were filled with the bodies of women and children. The tragedy left such a deep mark on the city and its atmosphere that even after 10 years it caused gloomy impressions and heavy feelings, which one of the prominent Russian writers of the twentieth century, Osip Mandelstam, reflected in his poem “Phaeton Driver.”
The Shushi massacre became the apotheosis of the two-year-long attempts of the Azerbaijani authorities to seize and subjugate Artsakh. These irrepressible and unreasonable territorial claims on Artsakh by Azerbaijan, which was created as a result of the Turkish invasion in the South Caucasus, laid the foundation for the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict in its modern sense. The Azerbaijani authorities tried to achieve their goal through the direct support by the Turkish troops. Subsequently, the Turkish officers and emissaries continued to assist the Azerbaijani armed forces, including in organizing the Shushi massacre of 1920, attempting to continue the Genocide of Armenians, now in Eastern Armenia.
The forcible inclusion of Artsakh in the structure of Soviet Azerbaijan, following the Sovietization of the Republics of the South Caucasus, did not solve the issue, as the policy of the Azerbaijani authorities toward the Armenian population of Artsakh changed only in form, but not in content.
The beginning of the process of collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s once again actualized the issue of physical security of the Armenian population of Artsakh. In response to the peaceful demands of the people of Artsakh for reunification with Armenia, a wave of mass killings and pogroms of Armenians swept throughout Azerbaijan. Thousands of Armenians were killed and maimed, hundreds of thousands were deported. The Armenian pogroms of the 1988-1990s were the continuation of the Shushi massacre of 1920 and clearly demonstrated that even after 70 years neither the goals nor the methods of the Azerbaijani authorities had changed.
Only thanks to the self-organization of the people of Artsakh, which created a capable state with all the necessary institutions, including an efficient army, as well as the support of the Armenians worldwide, it was possible to repel the armed aggression of Azerbaijan in 1991-1994 and to prevent the repeating of the Shushi scenario in Artsakh, but  on a larger scale.
Today, the authorities and people of Artsakh are exerting every effort to revive Shushi and to restore, the cultural heritage of the city destroyed by the Azerbaijani authorities.
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harminuya · 5 days
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Armenian women and children sitting in bakery in Salmas, Late 19th Century or early 20th Century, by Antoin Sevruguin.
The Nelson Collection of Qajar photography.
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harminuya · 5 days
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remember when azerbaijan ethnically cleansed part of the country and nobody gave a shit
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harminuya · 5 days
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Եթե իմանայիր, որքան եմ լաց եղել ես Քո գնալուց հետո, որքան եմ քեզ փնտրել: Եթե հավաքեին իմ բոլոր արցունքները Ու սարքեին մի լիճ, որ լողային աստղերը, Եթե այնտեղ գային բոլոր սիրահարները Ու նրանց պատմեին սիրո մասին աստղերը, Նրանք կիմանային, որ սերը մի գիշեր է ━ Երբ կորչում են աստղերը, կորչում է նաև սերը: If only you knew how much I cried After you left, how long I've been searching for you. If they gathered all my tears And built a lake for the stars to swim in, If all the lovers gathered there And the stars told them tales of love, They would understand that love is but a fleeting night ━ When the stars fade away, so does love. (translated by metamorphesque)
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harminuya · 7 days
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❤💙🧡I am so excited to announce the release of our digital Armenian charity zine, Split Pomegranate - Sacred Seeds! 175 pages, 93 amazing artists and writers, and so much more, 100% of the profits of this digital book will be donated to All for Armenia It is such a privilege to showcase so so many beautiful pieces from Armenians and non Armenians alike, all representing the beauty and depth and resilience of Armenians. All supporters also automatically enter into a raffle to win amazing prizes, and the first three people to find the hidden links in the zine win a sticker bundle!! Thank you! ❤💙🧡
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harminuya · 7 days
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Split Pomegranate Zine is OUT!!!
Here's a little sneak peak of my piece for the zine! I am so honored to be a part of this project and to be able to help my people in the homeland by using my art :'^)
Please check out the Split Pomegranate Zine by following >this< link! You will get 175 pages of the most beautiful and diverse art (think painting, writing, poetry, sculpting and many more!) from 93 participants while also supporting vulnerable populations in Armenia <333
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harminuya · 7 days
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European men on youtube after visiting Arm.nia:
BROOO women here are virgins, Bro, they get married pretty young (24) and are christians, they believe in god. Did i say that they are virgins???
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harminuya · 7 days
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The panoramic view of Shushi - Armenian cultural center of Karabakh, 
after the 1920 massacre and destruction 
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harminuya · 8 days
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Armenian girl from Artsakh by Alexander Roinashvili. National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.
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harminuya · 8 days
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"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)
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