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hi! is it okay if I use your post with "there is something so lonely in the people you love not speaking your tongue." in one of my web weavings posts? i will give you full credit and tag you in the post. it's ok if not! :))

Yes absolutely! Thank you for asking :)

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yt supremacists and American fascists brining up Armenians and Artsakh being ethnically cleansed only after the fact. The irony of them never actually showing an IMAGE of the ethnically cleansed people they speak of. Instead they show our churches.

I wonder why they fear showing the Brown people being murdered? Because the fact that Armenians are Brown and Indigenous isn’t profitable for them. It doesn’t do well with their agenda to victimize themselves as yt Americans.

Their tired “Christian genocide” propaganda, when they actually mean “the shaming of yt fascist christian Americans”.

These people would never, and do not care about Indigenous Christian’s in SWANA being persecuted. They also won’t mention the fact that a leading cause of our persecution has to do with our Indigeneity.

Fascists like them are the exact reason we have lost our homeland. Why we lose our culture. Fascists like them are the bearers of genocide.

I really hope no diaspora Indigenous Christian’s fall for their shameless bullshit.

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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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There is something so lonely and devastating about death in the diaspora.

How many of our grandparents died without seeing their siblings because displacement separated them for decades?

How many will be buried in a land where they did not come from? Nowhere near where their parents were buried. Nowhere near their rivers and mountains.

I am so devastated for them. For the loneliness that follows even through death.

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A Palestinian woman who lost her home during the Nabka, and was forcefully displaced to Gaza, is now displaced again.

Why must these stories repeat? Why do our elders have to endure genocide all their lives? Where is justice for indigenous people? We are watching our homeland, our nature, and our people be destroyed.

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pachinko (2022) / past lives (2023)

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"Dark Forest in the Mountains," documentary directed by Roger Kupelian

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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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do you want to know how one combats the venomous deafness of the world in the face of genocide? read about operation "nemesis"

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my sign for a protest a couple days ago. grateful to be there— and won't stop for nothin!

palestine will be free.

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Palestinian Christians celebrate Palm Sunday at the Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza

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My father’s last photo of his bedroom in Tehran, prior to fleeing after the revolution.

remnants pt 1

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You must watch this!!!

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Melanya Baghdasaryan, displaced Artsakhtsi

Via: UNICEF Armenia

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I think some of the craziest hate I’ve gotten are Armenian nationalists trying to question my Armenianness because I have one non-Armenian parent (Spanish&Amazigh).

I’ve had to prove I speak Armenian— then get ridiculed by said nationalists because I “don’t speak proper Armenian”. The “proper Armenian” in question is Standardized Eastern Armenian. Despite the fact that most Armenians, over 90%, did not speak a dialect even near what is now the standardized Armenian.

It’s extremely sad that the same nationalists that will advocate for genocide recognition, will willfully contribute to the erasure of pre-genocide Armenian dialects that are ENDANGERED and rapidly dying.

I speak the dialect from Nakhchivan (now under Azerbaijani occupation— ironically they kept the Armenian name). My family was forcefully displaced by Shah Abbas in the 1600s— from this day forward our dialect has remained unchanged for 400 years.

Also adding onto the fact that most Armenians who have one none Armenian parent, also speak Armenian. My cousins are white and Armenian, and their white mother learned our village’s dialect. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t be fluent, because as she was learning Armenian, I was being taught alongside her. She speaks exactly as I do, and has tried to replace every loan word from Farsi, into Armenian for us. When someone asks what language she speaks she says “we are Armenian”. She calls herself Armenian and I will never deny her of that because she has preserved our heritage and dialect. She wouldn’t even let us speak English at home!

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I remember calling my father a few weeks ago to cry. To find someone to mourn with as Artsakh slipped away. As fascism won again.

I cried and told him I was angry— angry that genocide did not skip a generation. That it plagued our great grandparents, and now plagues my grandmother, my father, myself, and every child that has come and is to come.

I think about the plight of all indigenous people globally. That we are condemned to colonial rule. That we are condemned to a life of death and displacement. That genocide never skips a generation, it continues through every one of our lives. The world has been colonized and our people are dying.

We are resilient when we survive, but when we resist we are terrorists.

I am so tired of being resilient.

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[left: Anam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip.]

via ig: belalkh

[right: Amalia born in Martakert, Artsakh in 1920. Older than the borders of her region. She has experienced genocide all her life. She is now a refugee.]

via ig: stufankjian