Special for the Armenian Weekly It has been more than two decades since the ceasefire created the de facto state of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh Republic). During this same time-frame we enjoy been forced to depend upon Russia as our principal proponent and supplier of military hardware. With Armenia securely under its control,Moscows relationship with Ankara and Baku ignores the basic fact that both countries are sworn enemies of Armenia and Armenian culture. For them, the genocide in one form or another has never ended. The Jdrduz canyon in Shushi, and NKR (Photo: Rupen Janbazian) A counterweight to this situation is the abundance of good will that is extended to Armenia and the Armenian people by many foreign governments. This has been responsible for many of these same governments and their lesser political entities to officially recognize the murderous enterprise that took the lives of some 1.5 million harmless Armenian men,women, and children as a genocide. Yet, and given this reservoir of good will and with the genocide an established historic fact,we enjoy been unable to convert this empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own) into the required critical political support necessary for Artsakh’s de jure recognition. Given this obvious dichotomy we still seem unable [...]
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