December 11, 2020
In a powerful letter addressed to the Armenian National Committee of America–Western Region Board of Directors, the California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd shared his group’s “solidarity with the Armenian Community in denouncing in the strongest possible terms the aggressions and war crimes committed in Artsakh by the Azerbaijani government.” CTA is one of the largest and most powerful teachers’ unions in the country with over 300,000 members and a high political profile in California politics.
In a response letter, the ANCA-WR Board Chair Nora Hovsepian, Esq. expressed gratitude for CTA’s letter of support for the plight of the Armenian people further noting, “[T]he importance of teaching about the Armenian Genocide is even more pronounced when unpunished crimes against humanity become unwelcome invitations to continue the same policies of genocidal intent. Unfortunately, the Armenians of Artsakh and Armenia are currently sufferin
BY LENNA HOVANESSIAN, ESQ.
LAS VEGAS, WASHINGTON Armenia’s Honorary Consul General Adroushan Armenian, Armenian National Committee of America-Nevada Co-Chairs Lenna Hovanessian, Esq. and Hera Armenian, Esq., as well as UNLV Professor Rafael Oganesyan on Tuesday conducted two separate tele-conference meetings with Nevada Senators Catherine Cortez-Masto and Jacky Rosen. Both Senators included their staff, comprised of national security advisors, district directors, foreign policy advisors and also regional representatives on the call.
The Nevada Armenian-American community’s heightened concern, collective trauma and efforts regarding the September 27 attack and war on Artsakh by Azerbaijan and Turkey was the impetus for the call. The representatives presented a brief history and intent to ethnically cleanse Armenians from their indigenous homelands and the disastrous culmination of the war in the November 10 ceasefire agreement. A vast majority of historic Armenian homeland was c