land, his predecessors lost what they never had in a
war of aggression they unleashed two decades ago, and they will never
see it again except as good neighbors. He would do himself and
humanity a necessary favor by respecting the rights of his own
citizens, by returning the Armenian heartlands, including Shahumyan and
Nakhichevan, still under Azerbaijani occupation to their rightful
owners, and by making full redress to the hundreds of thousands of
Armenians, Lezgins, Talishes, Tats, and other minorities which he and
his have attempted to destroy.

If international law,
self-determination, decolonization, and basic liberty are to carry
true, not rhetorical import in the life and development of the
contemporary world, then it must be ruled by rights equally guaranteed.
Mountainous Karabagh, like Kosovo and Abkhazia, is the cutting-edge litmus test and must be recognized de jure and
without discriminationnephew of President Serzh Sarkisian reportedly beat up and
badly injured a man at a Yerevan nightclub.

The
cable attributed to Yovanovitch says violence perpetrated by senior
Armenian officials, government-linked businessmen and their relatives
appears to have become the norm in the country. There is a widespread
sense of impunity among such individuals, she allegedly wrote. Another
purported cable was sent to Washington by Pennington in April 2008 and
focused on emigration from Armenia. The diplomat, who was the U.S.
charge d’affaires in Yerevan at the time, allegedly suggested that the
process accelerated after the February 2008 presidential election and
the ensuing government crackdown on the Armenian opposition. More and
more middle-class Armenians are losing faith in their country’s future,
he said, according to the Russian website.

The
U.S. Embassy in Yerevan on Wednesday declined to say whether the
documents are authentic. In a