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Covering National Security, focused on the Middle East & North Africa. Likes, retweets, and follows ≠ endorsement.
Nov 1, 2020 16 tweets 19 min read
Thread: Innocent lives at risk

October: one month into the #NagornoKarabakh conflict.

Fuad Ismayilov’s sister kissed his hand shortly after he was killed in a rocket attack launched by Arm. forces on the city of Barda in #Azerbaijan.

#Armenia

By @ivorprickett for @nytimes Doctors and nurses tending to a taxi driver who had been injured in the rocket attack in the city of #Barda.

#Azerbaijan #Armenia

By Ivor Prickett for @nytimes
Oct 26, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Cost of Miatsum (Unification) to #Armenia

Recent political behaviours of @NikolPashinyan
which directly affected the negotiations process.

- Statement of Unification.
- Tonoyan's New war new territories doctrine.
- Moving parliament to Shusha.
- Undermining peace talks. “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it,” Pashinyan said during his speech in Stepanakert, the de facto capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. The prime minister also repeatedly led the crowd in chants of “miatsum,” or “unification,” the nationalist slogan...

eurasianet.org/pashinyan-call…
Oct 26, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
Soldiers Before, During, and After War

The effects of war on soldiers and civilians are enormous.

The cost of war is often unjustly distributed among the members of society - #NagornoKarabakh

Private Chris MacGregor, 24 - photographer @lalagesnow Private Sean Patterson, 19
Oct 24, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
#Armenian child soldier appears in this video is unacceptable. Children must be kept away from the horror of war.

"The recruitment and use of children by armed forces or armed groups is a grave violation of child rights and international humani. law".

Definition - A child associated with an armed force or armed group refers to any person below 18 years of age who is, or who has been, recruited or used by an armed force or armed group in any capacity (Paris Principles on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict) - @UNICEF
Oct 24, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Excerpts from the article: Similarly, Armenia not only occupied a sixth of Azerbaijan’s territory in the war in the early 1990s but evicted 700,000 occupants of these lands. #Azerbaijan #Armenia - foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/27/rus… But Armenia is subject to no sanctions whatsoever, mainly because Yerevan hides behind the fiction that it is not really a party to the conflict at all but that the “Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh” is.