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Global ARM’s statement included a response to President Trump’s statement on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The Global ARM statement reads: “While President Trump acknowledged the 1.5 million Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Empire, we are disheartened that the statement did not call what these mass murders were – Genocide. The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact.”
President Trump had previously and properly condemned the Biden Administration’s inaction as Azerbaijan used military aggression to ethnically cleanse Armenians from their homeland of Artsakh. We urge the President to build on his October 2024 Truth Social post regarding Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Artsakh when he proclaimed, “I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing …”
Complete Global ARM Statement on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Global ARM President Tim Jemal Speaks to OAN on Ongoing Genocide of Armenian Christians by Azerbaijan
Global ARM President Tim Jemal speaks with Chanel Rion of One America News regarding the ongoing genocide of Armenian Christians by Azerbaijan. With Armenia as a strategic U.S. ally, Azerbaijan cannot be allowed to destroy Armenian identity, culture, and religion.
Azerbaijani Armed Forces Open Fire, Damaging Civilian Homes in Syunik Province
Over the past two weeks, units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have reportedly opened fire three times toward the Khnatsakh and Khoznavar settlements in Syunik Province, Armenia. The attacks have reportedly resulted in damage to civilian residential buildings.
EUMA Reports Damage to Civilian Infrastructure in Syunik Province
On 110th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide, Global ARM President Urges Stronger U.S.-Armenia Ties and Accountability for Ongoing Atrocities
On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Global ARM President Tim Jemal spoke to St. Mary’s Armenian Apostolic Church in Costa Mesa, CA on the need to continue strengthening US-Armenia ties and avoiding past failures to prevent, condemn and hold accountable Turkey and Azerbaijan for ethnic cleansing, religious persecution and genocide.
Azerbaijan’s Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh and Genocidal Policy
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Holds Hearing on Azerbaijan’s Human Rights Abuses Post-COP29
On April 29, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R- NJ), held a hearing to examine the deteriorating human rights situation in Azerbaijan, particularly since the COP29 UN Climate Change Conference.
Artak Beglaryan, former State Minister and Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh, called on the U.S. Congress to recognize “the genocide of the Artsakh people as a continuation of the Armenian Genocide” and urged action. He outlined seven key recommendations, including support for international investigations, imposing sanctions on Azerbaijani officials, ending military aid to Azerbaijan, conditioning all U.S. assistance on tangible human rights improvements, and ensuring the safe and dignified return of ethnic Armenians to the homeland of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Jared Genser, Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, emphasized that to secure the release of Armenian prisoners, “the Trump Administration and Congress must take both public and private action to demonstrate that there will be real and serious consequences if [President] Aliyev fails to act.”
Miriam Lanskoy, Senior Director for Russia & Eurasia at the National Endowment for Democracy, described Azerbaijan’s use of transnational repression—including surveillance, threats, and intimidation of dissidents.
Andrea Prasow, Executive Director of Freedom Now, drew attention to how Azerbaijan’s repression extends beyond its borders. “Azerbaijan arrests people in other countries and extradites them under fabricated charges,” she said, adding that there are credible reports of attacks on critics of President Aliyev in Europe traced back to the Azerbaijani regime.
MEP Marina Mesure Urges Europe to Free Armenian Prisoners and End Azerbaijan’s Brutality
“They are detained and tortured, yet their only crime is defending their people, their land, and their rights. If we do nothing, we send a message to Aliyev that he can continue his actions against Armenia with impunity. Silence is no longer an option. We must send a clear signal—Armenia is not alone. We stand with Armenia to ensure respect for its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and its right to live in peace and security, without fear of further Azerbaijani aggression,” MEP Mesure stated.
Amnesty International Report Highlights Azerbaijan’s Ongoing Human Rights Abuses
“Impunity prevailed for past violations in the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.”
- Highlights PACE’s suspension of Azerbaijan’s credentials, citing the country’s failure to acknowledge the severe humanitarian and human rights consequences of blocking access through the Lachin Corridor to Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Notes PACE’s condemnation of Azerbaijan’s September 2023 military operation, which forcibly displaced the entire ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh — over 100,000 people — whose right to a safe and dignified return remains unrealized.
- Raises concern about worsening restrictions on independent NGOs and media, with human rights defenders and activists arrested for their legitimate work.
- Underscores widespread torture and ill-treatment, noting that Azerbaijan has refused to address long-standing concerns raised by the Council of Europe about abuse by police.
- Criticizes Azerbaijan’s role as host of COP29, stating that it failed to advance regional and global climate justice while simultaneously excluding and persecuting domestic human rights defenders and fostering a climate of self-censorship and intense surveillance.
Red Flag for Genocide: Lemkin Institute Warns of Imminent Azerbaijani Invasion of Armenia’s Syunik Province
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a Red Flag Alert warning of a potential Azerbaijani invasion of Armenia, particularly targeting the Syunik Province, which could escalate into acts of genocide. The alert cites
Azerbaijan’s historical and ideological motivations, recent military buildup, and ongoing regional aggression as strong indicators of imminent threat.
“We fear that a new invasion of Armenia proper—most likely focused on Syunik— will unfold according to a genocidal logic of identity erasure and domination that has long characterized Azerbaijan’s approach to the Armenian people,” the statement reads.
Armenian Clergy in Canada Condemn Azerbaijan’s Falsification of Christian Heritage at Vatican-Hosted Conference
- Condemns Azerbaijan’s ongoing falsification of Armenian cultural, historical, and religious heritage, particularly in Artsakh.
- Denounces the April 10, 2025 conference in Rome as a politically motivated event lacking academic and ecclesiastical integrity.
- Criticizes the Pontifical Gregorian University for hosting a platform that promotes historical revisionism and erases Armenian Christian legacy.
- Highlights the 1,700-year Armenian Christian presence in Artsakh through its churches, monasteries, khachkars, and manuscripts.
- Rejects the fabricated narrative of a so-called “Caucasian Albanian Church” used to appropriate Armenian heritage.
Obliged to Hate: The Successful Stigmatisation of Anti-War Voices in Azerbaijan
By Cesare Figari Barberis and and Mirkamran Huseynli
As for Azerbaijan, alternative conflict narratives remain marginalised and repressed. After the war, also the state began adopting the ‘traitor to homeland’ stigma label to silence the remaining anti-war dissenters. This became prominent during the ‘Know the traitors!’ campaign, launched in 2022 by the ruling party and media, targeting pro-peace voices.
Driven by Fear from Nagorno-Karabakh
The Guest Who Stayed: Rasmus Canbäck’s Last Dispatch From Artsakh
By Ani Poghosyan
Canbäck was the last foreign journalist to enter Artsakh before it was blockaded and emptied of its Armenian population. From the outset, the stakes are made clear: a journalist navigating the tightly controlled landscape of Azerbaijani propaganda and control. He opens with a pivotal moment—when his editor receives a message that the Azerbaijani ambassador to Sweden had written in to dispute one of Canbäck’s articles. It’s not an isolated incident, but rather part of a systematic campaign of intimidation.
“The fact that a government representative has taken the time to write to me tells me that I am no longer just observing the war. I am in the middle of it.”
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Photos of the Week
The Armenian community marches through the streets of New York City on the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Photo Courtesy of Bars Images.
Global ARM President and California community college Trustee Tim Jemal successfully led the unanimous passage by all seven Trustees of a resolution commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The resolution also condemned the “gross violations of human rights, including torture, mistreatment and illegal detention of Armenian prisoners, racial hatred, and desecration of cultural and religious Armenian heritage, (that) continue to be carried out by the government of Azerbaijan.”
Photo Courtesy of Global ARM.
On a rainy evening in Yerevan, the streets shimmered with the glow of thousands of torches as people of all ages walked together through Armenia’s capital, commemorating the 1.5 million lives lost during the Armenian Genocide.
Photo Courtesy of the Armenian Report.
U.S. Ambassador Kvien laid flowers at the eternal flame at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.
Photo Courtesy of US Embassy in Armenia.
1900 dancers gathered at the Cascade, a monumental staircase in Yerevan, to celebrate International Dance Day.
Photo Courtesy of 301.
Security
Ambassador Kvien and PM Pashinyan Inaugurate New Internal Affairs Facility, Underscore U.S. Support for Police Reforms in Armenia
EU’s Top Diplomat to Visit Armenia
Earlier, Greek MEP Emmanouil Fragkos criticized EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas for prioritizing a visit to autocratic Azerbaijan over standing with democratic Armenia.
“Armenia chooses democracy, adopts EU accession law, faces threats -yet the EU foreign policy chief visits autocratic Azerbaijan instead,” Fragkos said on X. “Why reward the aggressor and ignore the reformer? Kaja Kallas what message are you sending to democratic Armenia that defends its lands against Azerbaijan?”
Azerbaijan and China Signed Documents in Beijing
Armenia’s Quiet Defiance
By Olesya Vartanyan
These days the air in the South Caucasus feels thicker than it has in decades, not with heat or smoke, but with the slow suffocation of freedoms once taken for granted after the Soviet collapse. In Georgia, each week seems to bring a new restriction targeting liberal values while Azerbaijan shows international humanitarian organizations to the door. Against this backdrop Armenia stands—tentatively, precariously—as a lonely isle of pluralism. But for how long?
Science
US Team Plans First Dig at Mount Ararat’s Ship- Shaped Hill
Ground-penetrating radar carried out by the group has revealed what members describe as “a rectangular structure” lying several metres below the surface.
Economy
How Armenia is Trying to Build a Silicon Valley in the Caucasus
By Rayhan Demytrie
The initiative was established by a business organisation called the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE), which represents more than 200 high-tech Armenian companies.
“The vision is that we want to see Armenia becoming a
tech centre powerhouse that delivers utmost values to Armenia and to the world,” says Sarkis Karapetyan, the chief executive of UATE.
Ambassador Kvien Highlights U.S.-Armenia Tech Collaboration with ServiceTitan’s Nasdaq Success
Ambassador Kvien caught up with Ashot Tonoyan from ServiceTitan Armenia, which listed successfully on Nasdaq in 2024.
Ambassador Kvien Meets Westinghouse to Advance U.S.-Armenia Cooperation in Nuclear Energy Sector
America Angling for Power Deal in Armenia
Race appears to be on to build Armenia’s next nuclear plant.
Opinion
Holocaust Remembrance Day and Armenian Genocide: A moment of Shared Remembrance By Shmuel Lederman
This shared date should stir more than remembrance. It should inspire a deep sense of kinship between two ancient peoples who have both endured existential trauma.
It’s Time America held Azerbaijan Accountable for its Torture of Christians
By David Curry
A young man was recently beaten and thrown down a flight of steps for bringing his Bible to school. The story of Vusal, a Christian high school student in Azerbaijan, is a harrowing reminder of the dangers faced by religious minorities in the country.
Brussels Speaks, Baku Ignores
By Davit Khachatryan
As Armenian prisoners continue to languish in Azerbaijani prisons, a strongly worded resolution adopted by the European Parliament (EP) in mid-March has quietly receded from headlines. On March 13, the Parliament called for the immediate and unconditional release of Armenian detainees held in Baku, marking one of its clearest and most forceful statements yet on the matter. While the resolution’s limited effect is evident, the question remains: what, if anything, has it changed?
How Trump Could Make ‘Muscular Mediation’ Work in Ukraine
By Alan J. Kuperman
One example is from 2023, when Russia again was trying to forge compromise in Nagorno-Karabakh but at the same time needed help evading Western sanctions over Ukraine. As a result, Vladimir Putin refrained from coercing Azerbaijan, allowing it to reconquer the enclave and displace the historic Armenian majority. Mr. Trump faces a similar dilemma as he seeks both peace in Ukraine and rapprochement with Russia.