Armenian Defeat is Our Defeat

Zarna Joshi
6 min readNov 20, 2020

*Content Warning* genocide, ethnic cleansing, suicide bombing, drones, war trauma

Screenshot: Israeli drone used by Azerbaijan in 2016

Azerbaijan used drones they bought from both Turkey and Israel to kill thousands of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh which Armenians call Artsakh. The Turks trained them in how to use the drones as well as sending mercenaries to help the fight, some of whom were actual ISIS members. (This is not even the first time Azerbaijan used such drones against the Armenians either, they first used Israeli drones in 2016 against the Armenians. This is also not the first time ISIS has been involved in violence against Armenians, they destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in 2014.)

The Armenians used drones as well but those were locally made and unable to match the advanced technological warfare of Azerbaijan (which Azerbaijan can only afford because of their Caspian Sea oil money). Devastated by their losses, the Armenians have now surrendered and are giving up that disputed territory to the Azerbaijanis.

No one is calling this a war crime.

Very few are even bothering to talk about it.

Very few are talking about the genuine threat of ethnic cleansing in the region after this Russian brokered “peace deal”.

No one realizes, except astute world leaders, that this conflict, the public silence…

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Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog