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Bruce Tasker who is known to the Armenian society for his pursuit of investigation of breaches in the World Bank-financed project for the improvement of water and wastewater services for Yerevan voiced wrote a letter to Lragir.am.
Lragir, “FLOATING ARMENIA”
"Rafik Petrosyan thinks the rumours that Serge Sargsyan is selling Karabakh are not true".
The first issue that should be raised with Armenia's increasingly long list of political experts regarding Karabakh is not the 'Sale of Karabakh', but what compensation Armenia will get for peacefully giving up the surrounding territories, which cost the lives of 5,000 Armenians, and which acts as a security ring for Karabakh.
Armenia should not give up Karabakh without a major compensation package to pay for replacement of the thousands who now live in the surrounding territories, who are consistently ignored by the Minsk group, referred to irresponsibly as 'Occupying Forces'.
How that money is received and what then is done with that money is the secondary question, which also needs to be asked.
Who is that handsome fellow
Bruce Tasker 10 weeks 2 days ago
Garen,
Nice picture - Who is that handsome fellow?
Do you mind me pitting it
Կարեն Կարապետյան 10 weeks 2 days ago
Do you mind me pitting it up? I just though that since it's on Lragir website, then it's in public domain and therefore no harm done. But if you mind, I can take it down.
No, Not at all
Bruce Tasker 10 weeks 2 days ago
No, Not at all,
But it is a bit BIG
How much is the reward?
Ani 10 weeks 2 days ago
Taken off the post office wall, no? :)
Congrats for getting somebody to listen...
That's more like it
Bruce Tasker 10 weeks 1 day ago
Garen,
That's more like it. Now, can you take a few years off?
BTW, I did not write a 'letter' to Lragir, I posted a comment on one of their articles. They wrote to ask if they could publish it, to which I agreed, then low and behold, it came up as a separate article - with my picture. I do not mind, the more this issue is covered the better, and for that matter, Genocide.
OSCE - Settlers less than 15,000
Bruce Tasker 10 weeks 1 day ago
I am publishing a new blog: "The Karabakh Deal", http://thekarabakhdeal.blogspot.com in which I am "Reporting and monitoring the Armenian Regime's Sellout of Karabakh, including the association with Turkey, Genocide and opening the Turkish border".
I am posting the more important of the articles I have gathered for the past year, and have just come across this one, which is also on my blog, and which covers the settlers in Lachin. According to an OSCE fact finding mission that toured the districts in question in late January and early February this year. It concluded that resettlement is "quite limited," strictly voluntary, and not the result of a deliberate Armenian government policy, and that most of the Armenians re-settlers involved are displaced persons from other regions of Azerbaijan. It estimated the total number of such Armenian settlers as less than 15,000, in contrast to Azerbaijani projections of over 30,000.
See the full article at:
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1058331.html
So, according to OSCE, there are not 9,000, but up to 15,000 Armenians in the surrounding territories.
My personal experience is stories from homeless Armenian families who have been encouraged to move to the surrounding territories, where they are given homes and land, and I understand Karabakhi passports.
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