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THE ARMENIAN MIRRORc SPECTATOR Since 1932 Volume LXXXXI, NO. 34, Issue 4676 MARCH 13, 2021 $2.00 Boston City Council ‘Jeopardy!’ Show Supports Genocide Opposition Continues to Clue Calls Armenia Education, Including Irredentist towards Armenian Genocide Rally Against Pashinyan Karabakh BOSTON — As it stands, Boston YEREVAN (Armenpress, ‘Jeopardy!’ Expresses Regrets Public Schools currently do not require Panorama.) — The joint candi- their history or social science curricu- CULVER CITY, Calif. (gwwire. date of the Fatherland Salvation lum frameworks to include the topic of com, Twitter) — The game show Movement Vazgen Manukyan genocide when teaching United States “Jeopardy!” used the clue “This said during a demonstration at history or world history. country has been accused of irreden- Baghramyan Street that they At the Council meeting the first week tism, the reclaiming of old territory, will patiently move forward of March, the Council voted to adopt over the Nagorno-Karabakh area in their struggle, demanding the a resolution in support of passage of Azerbaijan” in an episode aired on resignation of Prime Minister House Docket (H.D.) 1167, “An Act March 4. The answer given as “What Nikol Pashinyan. Concerning Genocide Education” and is Armenia” by Jim Cooper was ac- Vazgen Manukyan empha- Senate Docket (S.D.) 1592, “An Act cepted as correct, but it led very sized that it is necessary to Advancing and Promotion Genocide quickly to a social media kerfuffle. organize elections, so as the Education” in the Massachusetts State Various individual Armenians, angry people could make a choice, legislature. that the clue, using the word “accused,” but that should be done not un- H.D. 1167, “An Act Concerning seemed to be negatively characterizing der the current authorities. He Genocide Education,” sponsored by Armenia’s actions, while “irredentism” once again reminded their plan, Rep. Jeffrey Roy, and S.D. 1592, “An implied that Karabakh (Artsakh) did according to which the Prime Act Advancing and Promoting Geno- Vazgen Manukyan belong to Azerbaijan, reacted quickly Minister steps down, after cide Education,” sponsored by Sen. on social media, as did Armenian or- which an interim government is Michael Rodrigues, are acts that seek formed, the situation in the country stabilizes and elections are held. to amend the Massachusetts General Manukyan urged protesters to block all the entrances of the National Assembly to prevent Laws to require that all school districts the MPs from entering. in the state shall include a curriculum see OPPOSITION, page 2 unit on the Holocaust and genocide. Such curriculum unit would in- clude, but not limited to, teaching the histories of the Holocaust, the Arme- nian Genocide, the Famine Genocide in Ukraine known as Holodomor, the Armenia in a Box Pontian Greek Genocide and the more How Two Startups Became a Gamechanger in the Marketplace recent atrocities in Bosnia, Cambodia, The clue on “Jeopardy!” Rwanda, and Sudan. By Ani Duzdabanyan-Manoukian YEREVAN — During the about Karabakh Special to the Mirror-Spectator most challenging time for Ar- menians all over the world, two ganizations like the Armenian Nation- Uncertainty Persists families kept the connection between the diaspora and the homeland al Committee of America’s Western alive with an interesting idea: two boxes full of delicious snacks and Region. Alex Galitsky, spokesman for Over Army Chief wearable art pieces that kept hundreds of people busy and helped the latter organization, saw the clue as YEREVAN (RFE/RL, Panorama) small businesses survive during the war in Artsakh and the Covid-19 a “blatant misportrayal of the #Art- — The status of Armenia’s top general pandemic. Hye Box and Ararat Box, with a simple but powerful sakh self-determination movement,” remained uncertain on Tuesday, March concept, were able to diminish the miles and hours of difference further saying, “It’s profoundly disap- 9, nearly two weeks after Prime Min- to deliver homeland-made products to the US, Canada, Europe and pointing to see a cultural staple like ister Nikol Pashinyan decided to fire Australia. ‘Jeopardy!’ use its platform to sani- him in response to demands for the Two sisters, twins Elen and Elmira Gabrielyan, founded Hye Box tize the genocidal violence perpetrat- government’s resignation voiced by about one and a half years ago as a box with Armenian crafts and books for chil- ed against the indigenous Armenians the military’s top brass. dren. “We were thinking that our product will be more useful for children, since of Artsakh by the Azeri government.” General Onik Gasparyan, the chief many of them never even visited Armenia and knew lit- On the other hand, individual Azer- of the Arme- tle about the motherland,” explains Elen. But last baijanis on social media were pleased nian army’s see BOXES, page 3 with the clue, assuming that it meant General Staff, Elmira that the show was somehow ratifying and 40 other Gabrielyan Azerbaijani claims to Karabakh. Some high-ranking of- (left) and Elen also complained that Armenians were ficers demanded Gabrielyan always crying about their history. that Pashinyan Azerbaijani Consul General Na- and his cabinet simi Aghayev in Los Angeles used Colonel-General step down in a the opportunity to crow, exclaiming Onik Gasparyan joint statement in a Tweet on March 5, “Illegal, @ issued on Febru- UN-condemned occupation & eth- ary 25. They accused the government nic cleansing of #Azerbaijan’s #Qa- of putting Armenia “on the brink of rabagh region by #Armenia was ex- collapse” after last year’s war in Na- posed again. Watched by millions gorno-Karabakh. of people. Truth always comes out.” see CHIEF, page 2 see JEOPARDY, page 20 OPINION ATHENS CALIFORNIA Turkey, Azerbaijan, Romina Katsikian Su-Beoreg & Pakistan Form New Is Ready for Her Monta Factory Axis of Evil Close-up Page 17 Page 16 Page 15 2 SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021 ARMENIAN MIRROR-SPECTATOR ARMENIA NEWS from ARMENIA Armenia, Cuba FMs Exchange Views on Prospects of Cooperation YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Armenia and Cuba expressed readiness to strengthen partnership and bolster political dialogue. In a phone call on March 9, Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Aivazyan and his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla attached impor- tance to deepening of cooperation also in international organizations. Aivazyan and Parilla exchanged ideas over integration processes, namely over prospects of cooper- ation within the framework of the The opposition rally on Yerevan’s Baghramyan Street Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) – of which Armenia is a member of and Cuba an observer. “In this regard, Minister Aivazyan Opposition Against Pashinyan Continues attached importance to the expan- sion of the geographic boundaries OPPOSITION, from page 1 missing persons and all the losses the alize that you have deprived a whole na- of the EEU’s foreign economic “They must be unable to enter here. This country suffered, the authorities think that tion of their homeland and honor? Do you relations. Ministers Ara Aivazyan entrance is blocked, go and block the other resorting to repressive measures, imprison- realize that you have left tens of thousands and Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla ones. Go ahead, my friends. We are sur- ing people and discrediting them will help of people homeless and thousands of chil- expressed the conviction that the rounding the National Assembly, and it them retain hold on power. dren orphans? There is and will be no for- status of an observer state will will return to normal operation only when “It won’t work. Today I declare from giveness for you for the simple reason that enable Cuba to more effectively it is ready to make decisions suitable for here that all the slaves of the regime, all everyone who will share that responsibility cooperate with EEU members, our people,” Manukyan said. the servants will answer before the law, will become an accomplice, and no sane namely in industry, healthcare, Another opposition figure, Ara Saghatel- generations and God,” Saghatelyan said, person will go for it,” Saghatelyan empha- energy, transport and agriculture,” yan, also urged on his supporters. blaming Pashinyan and his cabinet for the sized. the Armenian foreign ministry said Saghatelyan, the former chief of staff of large number of war victims and territorial Saghatelyan had been arrested for two in a readout. the Armenian parliament, was set free on losses. months as part of a criminal probe into a Saturday pending trial. He thanked people Saghatelyan said he was in Artsakh al- case concerning a fake Facebook account for the “struggle against the dictatorship most throughout the whole period of the opened in the name of “Gagik Soghom- Documentary on and for his freedom” at an opposition ral- recent war and witnessed the “mess” cre- onyan.” The page continued to be updated Azerbaijani Pogroms ly on Yerevan’s Baghramyan Avenue on ated there. while the former senior parliament staffer Released March 9. “The current infantile authorities even was remanded in custody. “You won and I am standing here today. turned the war into a show. Bayraktar Another opposition member, Artur YEREVAN (Armenpress) — On We won. We will achieve another victory drones and cluster munitions were being Vanetsayn, said rallies do not in any way March 5, on the 33 anniversary of soon. Thank you. They [PM Nikol Pash- used against us, while they were assuring hinder the return of the Armenian prisoners the pogroms and self-defense of inyan and his cabinet] have broken all the people here that we were winning. Then he of war (POWs) from Azerbaijani captivi- the Armenians of Gandzak (cur- written and unwritten rules and crossed [Pashinyan] says, “I am sorry.” Seriously? ty. Vanetsyan, the former Director of the rently Ganja), a short documentary all the red lines,” Saghatelyan said in his Do you understand what you have done? National Security Service and opposition prepared by the Public Relations speech.
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