CivilNet: On Shushi Liberation Day, Armenians March to Yerablur to Honor Fallen Soldiers

Emil Lazarian 2021
CIVILNET.AM

09:05

Hundreds of people marched from the center of Yerevan to Armenia’s Yerablur Military Cemetery on May 9 to honor the thousands of soldiers who fell in the First and Second Artsakh wars.

May 8 and May 9 mark Shushi Liberation Day, a national holiday, when Armenians celebrated the liberation of the Karabakh city from Azerbaijani forces in 1992. This year, however, the festivities turned into a commemoration – Shushi was captured by Azerbaijani forces in November 2020.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS