Attacks and bombings on peaceful, civilian territories within Artsakh; upper region of Askeran.

The New York Times has a lot to Answer for

“When Armenia talked tough, Azerbaijan took action”

Anthony Andranik Moumjian
8 min readOct 29, 2020

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Carlotta Gall is a British journalist who is also Istanbul’s bureau chief for The New York Times. Azerbaijan has been in the middle of a $3 billion money-laundering scandal that has been directly linked to four shell companies registered in Britain.

Gall calling herself a journalist is the equivalent of Donald Trump claiming that the Central Park Five should have been executed. They’re pinnacles of fraudulence designed to stir emotion and sell it off as war-fevered nationalism.

I was paralyzed by a comparison.

Imagine if, every day, you woke up to another 9/11.

That is exactly what’s happening to Armenia right now. Their per-capita casualties, when set side-by-side with America, are the equivalent of a 9/11 happening every day. The bombings began on September 27 — it’s almost a month straight of a new list of dead children, soldiers, youth. And now, the new targets have been hospitals, buildings, residences, and civilians.

There have been very few reporters allowed in Azerbaijan to document what’s been going on. The few they have, like Carlotta Gall, have claimed that:

“When Armenia talked tough

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Anthony Andranik Moumjian
Anthony Andranik Moumjian

Written by Anthony Andranik Moumjian

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