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April 24, 1915. Never forget.
this is really important, as someone who is part Armenian I think this deserves so much more attention than it gets, especially since Turkey continues to deny this and try to erase it. I’ve flown out to visit the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, and the photographs and testimonies were truly devastating. Please reblog this to spread awareness.
Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.
Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term ‘genocide’?
Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a “museum” displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.
in any case, we are still here, and we need your help.
due to relentless bombing for more than 40 continuous days, much of our cities and villages in Artsakh have
been destroyed. houses, buildings, streets, churches, cultural centres. on top of the destruction
and death this war has brought to my people, we are struggling to cope
with covid - number of new cases have been steadily increasing since the
war broke out, for obvious reasons. Armenians of the diaspora have been donating since the war broke out (and even before that, because it is with our donations that we built Artsakh after the first war 30 years ago). we are a small country, with limited resources, and this war and pandemic has put a strain on us. we were struggling before, but now we need all the help we can get.
https://helparmenians.carrd.co - a really useful page with plenty of resources, you can learn about armenia/artsakh, there’s petitions to sign, and donation pages
@armenianblog also has a lot of posts with helpful infographics to educate yourself and others on the subject.
you can buy System of a Down’s newest album - proceeds are going towards the armeniafund (alternatively, you can stream the songs on Spotify or Youtube)
watch this YouTube video(beginning to the end, don’t skip ads, don’t mute the video, don’t play it on a loop) all proceeds are being donated
My redbubble shop - all proceeds for November and December I will donate to himandram.org (redbubble is currently having a sale of 20-60% with the code GIFTS60, fyi)
if you know any other creators who are donating proceeds from their works, please add them on this post. let’s create a masterpost and boost each other’s efforts.
Ara the Rat, all proceeds made from items on this page are being donated.
Telo Jan, all proceeds made from their ARTSAKH IS ARMENIA, DEFEND ARMENIA and RECOGNIZE ARTSAKH designs are being donated (and at least 10% is being donated from everything else). There are other items where 100% of the proceeds are being donated (shown here), but if you go through their Instagram or Facebook page I believe other items have been included since the October 6th post.
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