The US Embassy condemns the firebombing of Yerevan's D.I.Y. Club on May 8, 2012, and the continued acts of vandalism against the club. The crime appears to have targeted a sexual minority group.
A report today by the Anatolia news agency says that Spanish lawmakers have voted against a resolution describing the killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last century as “genocide”.
I just heard about a parade that took place yesterday to promote diversity that went awry when the participants, some of whom happened to be homosexual, were harassed and even attacked by nationalist youth. In Armenia, gay bashing is a normal thing.
Gagik Tsaroukyan, who heads the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), stated today that the party does not believe it would be expedient to enter into any government coalition.
The report entitled “The Perils of Being a National Minority: Human Rights and Chakhalyan v. Georgia”, presents a detailed overview of the events in Javakheti and Georgia leading up to Vahagn Chakhalyan’s arrest and trial, as well as the country’s political context before and after the trial which have affected the Georgian authorities’ treatment of and policies toward its Armenian minority.
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