#armenian genocide remembrance day

[superdillin]

It is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

And I have some big feelings, as a part of the diaspora. Remembrance Day is an inappropriate title for a time in which Armenians still face genocidal forces. Just last year, Azerbaijan, armed by Turkey, ethnically cleansed over 280,000 Armenians from Artsakh. The illegal colonizer state of Israel, currently in the midst of their 6+ month-long genocide against the Palestinians, has placed the Armenians who call Jerusalem home under threat and siege.

The Armenian struggle and the Palestinian struggle are deeply linked.

In his rise to power, Hitler is quoted to justify his actions against the Jewish, Roma, Queer, Disabled, and other victims of the Holocaust, to say "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

Echoing these chilling words, Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish wrote:

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you?

The trauma sustained during a genocide is not limited to the people experiencing it right now. The echoes of that trauma leak forward into the next generations, passed down through survival, and that is so insidious. My grandmother got to live, but did so believing that her parents did not love her, because the trauma they endured prevented them from expressing it. Abuse and unhealthy attachment were passed down because that starving hunger for love and acceptance was passed down. It is so deeply cruel and unfair that our oppressors get to reach through time and hurt our children's children.

We need to band together and stop the present-day abusers, the genocidal monsters that oppress the people of Palestine, Armenia, Congo, and so many others.

We need to uplift art made by those who survived, and by those who are surviving. Art is always targeted by the oppressor to erase cultural identity, to destroy legacy, and to break spirits. Support Palestinian and Armenian poets, and artists, and writers.

If you are one of the many who never learned about the Armenian Genocide, learn today. Ask yourself why people worked so hard not to educate you on this piece of history.

[everydayesterday]

Tsitsernakaberd memorial, Yerevan. April 24 of each year marks Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

"The 44-meter stele symbolizes the national rebirth of Armenians. Twelve slabs are positioned in a circle, representing the twelve lost provinces in present-day Turkey. In the center of the circle, at a depth of 1.5 meters, there is an eternal flame dedicated to the 1.5 million people killed during the Armenian genocide."

[grimoireroseart]

It’s armenian genocide remembrance day! I’m an armenian artist with a crap ton of interests and love our culture so much <3

I drew our national animal (Golden Eagle) with forget-me-not flowers as a raffle for this week on toyhouse and i really like how it turned out! I learned that some forget me’s can be other colors and they look so pretty, i really wanna grow these someday in my garden

I do also want to mention that armenia is still going through a lot of genocide today and really hope people stand with armenia cause i’ve noticed our issues get pushed to the side A LOT in media and i don’t like that at all, it’s not fair. Take a moment of silence for all those affected, and make sure you let your loved ones know you love them! We’re all equal on this planet and there really shouldn’t be fighting when there can be peace.

[sweetreveriee]

Today is April 24th

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

I’ve seen so many posts about the genocides happening in Gaza and Palestine, yet next to none about Armenia’s ongoing battle against Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Don’t forget Palestine in support of Armenia, but don’t forget Armenia in support of Palestine either.

The Armenians have been victims of genocide long before 1915. For over 100 years they have been battling the Ottomans and the Turks.

Don’t forget Artsakh either. The war was only four years ago. Don’t forget how Azerbaijan blocked off a necessary route, blocking off food and water deliveries to Yerevan.

Please, don’t forget the Armenians. Don’t forget Palestine. And most of all, don’t forget the sick leaders who caused the genocides in both these countries. Don’t forget to pray for their downfall.

[magpigment]

Wishing all of us a safe Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day today, April 24. I love all of us, and I'm wishing us the best. Today is a day of mourning, for the travesty we've faced, the relatives and culture we've lost, and for the country that faced so much. While I've never gotten to visit Armenia myself, or the memorial, someday I will, like my mother and her family before me. We've lost much, but not our love, and not our pride. 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

[these-violet-delights-fic]

108 years later - Never forget.

[aralezinspace]

Happy Remembrance Day! I hope you are doing good, my lovely cousin! 🇦🇲💜💜💜

Happy Remembrance Day cousin! Hope you’re doing well too 🇦🇲💗💗

[peonac]

It's a day that I'm glad I survived

[metamorphesque]

The indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams was unsealed today in a sweeping federal corruption probe involving foreign government influence, including pressure from Turkey.

Excerpt of the Federal Indictment: “On April 21, 2022, the Turkish Official messaged the Adams Staffer, noting that Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day was approaching, and repeatedly asked the Adams Staffer for assurances that ADAMS would not make any statement about the Armenian Genocide. The Adams Staffer confirmed that ADAMS would not make a statement about the Armenian Genocide. ADAMS did not make such a statement.”

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[yesornopolls]

Did you get time off from school for Armenian Genocide Memorial Day?

In my area we get the day off from school, because there is a large Armenian minority here.

[superdillin]

resharing this retelling of the Armenian werewolf myth in honor of remembrance day

The Wolf Woman

CW: implied SA, implied violence

She was a child when she first heard the tale of the mardagayl. Everyone knew that if a woman sinned too severely, the wolf woman would appear to her, curse her with a magical pelt, and each night for seven years she would be forced to wear it and transform into a feral beast. Unable to stop the wolf's hunger, she would devour those she loved until penance had been paid.

To her surprise, the wolf woman instead appeared to her on her darkest night as she huddled in shock by the fire in the hearth. The creature stood up, shedding its pelt to reveal a beautiful woman with dark hair and yellow eyes. The woman approached her, and as she wrapped the pelt around her shoulders she whispered "You have seven years."

Frightened of what the wolf might make her do, she stared at the pelt each night from her bed for near a month before she finally reached for it and carefully put it on. As her beastly form revealed itself beneath the pelt she understood that she was never meant to be the one who was afraid.

She took her time through those seven years. First, she came for the preacher, who condemned her to the congregation. Then the livestock of her family, who disowned her for her shame. The witnesses who stood by silent, she came for slowly year by year. Saving him for last, on the 7th anniversary, she finally came for the man who sinned against her. Up close, the wolf's eyes let her see clearly the way he wore the age of seven years like 20, waiting for his fate.

That night when the wolf woman returned, they sat by the fire, huddled together under the pelt in a comfortable silence for a time. Just before dawn, the creature leaned her head closer to the woman's ear and asked in a whisper, "Did you make them pay?"

She nodded contently.

"Good."

The spirit kissed her gently on the top of her head before she took back the pelt, putting it back over her shoulders as her true form returned.

The Mardagayl - the Armenian werewolf

[notjustpictures]

Me and Thuli in Yerevan Armenia 🇦🇲 . Thankful for the love I share with my friends. Today is Armenian genocide Remembrance Day.

[vicholas]

For Turkey, while the importance of the territorial question remained constant, the significance of the moral stigma of 1915 was on the increase, not least because of these comparisons of the Armenian genocide with the Holocaust. The morality factor would increase yet further as the 1960s passed and, on the international scene, the social protest and civil rights movements of the second half of the decade promoted a new culture of awareness of state criminality and accountability. All of this accounts forthe single-minded determination of Turkey’s politicians up to the present to combat the application of the label ‘genocide’ to the Armenian experience, and their preparedness to tolerate even American presidents talking of atrocities and massacres in 1915 as long as the magic word is avoided. ‘Genocide’, after all, implies a level of intent, extent, and direction that ‘massacres’ and ‘atrocities’ do not. A strand of the strategy of rejection has been to focus on differences real and imagined between the Armenian tragedy and the supposedly more ‘authentic’ Jewish genocide. Turkish diplomats have long been at pains to stress their condemnation of the Holocaust, and its ‘unique’ nature, while reiterating the ‘controversial’, ‘civil war’ circumstances of the Armenian deportations. For good measure, if utterly irrelevantly, except in so far as it is calculated to drive a wedge between pro-Israeli and pro-Armenian lobbies, Turkish diplomats and historians have also emphasized Turkey’s relatively good historical relationship with its Jews. One of the more bizarre manoeuvres in this direction was penned in 1993 by Stanford Shaw, who devoted a volume to ‘proving’ Turkey’s role in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Not only did Shaw play down uncomfortable evidence undermining his supposed main thesis, but, in the most obvious subtext of the book, he sought to portray Armenians and Greeks as pro-Nazi, in stark contrast to the humanitarianism of the Turkish Republic. The most effective weapon at Turkey’s disposal nevertheless remained its political leverage. This enabled it to quash the Armenian appeals of the late 1960s to the UN and the US government for the recognition of the genocide and the punishment of its perpetrators. In March 1974 the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities agreed, on the objection of the Turkish representative, effectively seconded by his US counterpart, to remove mention of the Armenian case from its report on genocide. The State Department itself helped to scupper a congressional proposal to make 24 April 1975 a ‘National Day of Remembrance of Man’s Inhumanity to Man’ with particular reference to the events of 1915–16.

Donald Bloxham, "The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians"

[aqlstar]

Also, just because it doesn't get talked about enough: Biden was the first US president to acknowledge that what the Young Turks did to Armenians during WWI constitutes a genocide.

I guess he decided he could deal with a hissy fit from Turkey. Good for him.

[pidgie-core]

-🖤April 24th, the day of remembrance for the loss of my people. I am the direct descendant of a genocide survivor. All the men in her family were killed, but somehow she, her sister, and mother made it out alive. They cut off all their hair and smeared their faces with mud so that they would not be kidnapped, and they hid under d*ad bodies to survive. I am named after her. I carry her name and her pain and I lift up her story for others to hear. Her story is just like that the other Armenian survivors. The suffering we have faced alongside the Greeks and Assyrians and more at the hands of the Ottoman Empire still effect us today. Our indigenous lands are still being taken as we speak. Somehow I have continued to lose family to todays war, the new path of ethnically cleansing my kind from this land. So I come to you today, my heart and my hands open, imploring you to tell the Armenian people in your life TODAY that you care about them and are thinking of them. Watch a Documentary, listen to music, look at some art some poetry, to remember those that are fallen, and to also celebrate the lives and culture of those here today, that despite all odds, we’re here….. some how… I’m here. Sending you my love🖤-

[babylon-crashing]

Protesting against atrocities comes in many forms, today I would ask everyone to help Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan by going to www.freearmenianprisoners.com. 

The following information comes from the good folks at ONEArmenia:

April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. It’s a day when Armenians and their allies around the world remember the 1.5 million lives lost over a century ago at the hands of Ottoman Turkey, fiercely fight for recognition and justice, and reflect on the road ahead. Part of that road today includes grappling with the aftermath of Azerbaijan’s assault on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) last September, which resulted in the forced displacement of the region’s near entire Armenian population, forced to chose between living in exile from their homeland and the threat of genocide by Turkey-backed Azerbaijan. With our ancestors and compatriots from Artsakh in our hearts and minds, today we’re adding our voice to the growing movement for the release of all Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan. One of those prisoners is philanthropist and former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, who since April 5, 2024, has been on hunger strike after repeated requests for a fair and transparent trial have not been granted by Azerbaijan. If you’re able to, we urge you to join a global hunger strike in symbolic solidarity with Vardanyan and the dozens of Armenian political prisoners whose rights continue to be violated, and in remembrance of the 1.5 million Armenians who, deprived of food, water, and shelter, perished in Ottoman Turkey.