I am a descendent of a Genocide survivor. My grandmother, who relocated to Soviet Armenia in 1946, was a small woman with a shadow that reigned large and wide throughout my childhood. She sat in her armchair, layers of muted color fabric covering her wobbly knees and chain-smoked silently.
Ashot Shahzadyan, sentenced to twenty years for the murder of a fellow villager, told Hetq that he recently ended a forty day hunger strike after his mother pleaded with him.
Armenia has open border with only two countries – Georgia to the north and Iran to the south.
On September 30, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Askeran direction.
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