re armenians of karabakh deserve independence in article cronos metaphor com covdy shemesh metaphor com ivan covdy wrote in response to article galaxy ucr edu raffi watnxt ucr edu raffi r kojian says ic there are some armenians here in the usa ic in fact there are some areas where armenians are majority ic suppose a large group of people of one of such area decides ic that the us government is not representing their interests and vote for ic seperation from the usa the armenians you refer to have chosen to come to the united states lawfully and peacefully however if armenians invade the united states and force americans to either flee or become armenians it will not succeed similarly the armenians of karabakh are being forced by azerbaijan to either become azeris or leave and it also will not succeed as has been demonstrated karabakh irrespective of its geographic position situated technically within the stalin prepared borders of azerbaijan has been long oppressed and eventually was invaded in by azeri omon and soviet forces resulting in the northern third of this armenian area being depopulated of armenians the armenians have been fighting back ever since clearly you feel it rather ridiculous for armenians of let s say glendale california to engage in an independence movement for a free and independent glendale similarly the azerbaijanis are engaging in a losing attempt at claiming sovereignty over the land and people of karabakh who have lived continuously in karabakh a thousand years before the first central asian invaders ever stepped foot in the caucasus ic should they get it ic and should the un enforce their will ic and is it a simple beautiful concept indeed your analogy has broken down because you have switched positions of the victim and invader a better analogy would be the direct parallel between armenians of karabakh and native americans now if you wish we can discuss the tenets of might versus right and the policies of settler nations david davidian dbd urartu sdpa org armenia has not learned a lesson in s d p a center for regional studies anatolia and has forgotten the p o box punishment inflicted on it cambridge ma late turkish president turgut ozal
