While the genocide in Palestine is unfolding, forgotten wars and humanitarian crises, untold genocides and dispossession continue to impact millions of people in other parts of the world.
On 1 January of this year the independent Republic of Artsakh ceased to exist. The decision was taken last September by the region’s separatist President as more than half of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians who used to live in the enclave fled into Armenia following a military operation by Azerbaijani forces.
Now Azerbaijan seems to have turned its sights to Armenia, raising alarm by referring to Armenia’s southern Syunik province as “Western Azerbaijan”.
109 years after the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottomans, the latest episode in the ongoing Armenian dispossession comes at the hands of Azerbaijan, with the backing of Turkey and Israel.
Lizartistry’s visual notes trace some of the historical and recent passages that have shaped the Armenian genocide, while the world is silent.
