Mass protests in Armenia reach a boiling point | DW News

In Armenia, months of political tensions have reached a boiling point - sparking concerns of violence. There have been mass rallies in Armenia's capital Yerevan, with both opponents and supporters of embattled Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan taking to the streets. Pashinyan has himself led thousands of his supporters through the streets, denouncing what he called "an attempted military coup" – after Armenia's armed forces demanded his resignation. Pashinyan has faced months of protests since Armenia's defeat by Azerbaijan in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh last year.

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[eriksantoso]

This is like movie title:From myanmar to armenia.

[Sofus.]

He can do nothing about losing the war Azerbaijan had more money and people.

[solojavaisland]

Germany and Japan experienced lost of war but rebuild the country ahead over pass their last enemies.
Learn from them and threw all arrogance into a constructive moves.

[benjaminjohnson]

"Nagorno-Karabakh is a majority Armenian Enclave" says your expert? Maybe after Armenia ethnically cleansed it in 1990s of Azeris... What about the 7 other districts which SOROUND Nagorno-Karabakh which make up the majority of the disputed land in terms of total acreage? Land which the Armenians have devastated and made uninhabitable for the original homeowners. It's because of experts like that, Armenia thought that the international community would prevent major conflict from breaking out and that they didn't have to negotiate with Azerbaijan. Azeri's sought peace for over 25 years and would have accepted much less in terms of negotiation. Rather than consolidating Armenian victory on the ground by pushing for a realistic peace settlement, they were misled into false assumptions and this resulted in being strategically vulnerable and unable to defend themselves on the ground. All parties are guilty in conflict, but I think the Armenian Diaspora is more guilty than most in terms of egging on the nationalism within their own communities and yet failing to come through on their commitments...

[madeinbz]

ok ok, am I the only one that find it weird that she reports from Moscow? I mean Yerevan ain't that far away ... wouldn't it be better to get a sense of what's happening by talking with some ppl on the street also?

[viktorzo]

Armenia put itself in a geopolitical situation where the regional rowers of Russia, Turkey, and Iran were either supporting Azerbaijan or were unwilling to help Armenia. At the same time they were neglecting their military while stirring up tensions over nagorno-karabakh.

It's a reminder that just because the cold war is over and the world has nukes, the rules of geopolitics have not changed. We have not entered into a "post wars" era, as some naive people might have you believe.

[aksitatar]

"What happened Pashinyan?"As the Azerbaijanian President says...

[MrKlemczak]

She is on location in Moscow 2300 km away from the action. Ahhh, DW up to its old tricks again, playing the expert as always.

[לעזאזלעםגוביידן]

This is like germany when austrian painter told them germany got betrayed by their leader for sign peace with entente

[RollSoup]

I am not armenian but I stand with all of you Armenians!! 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇦🇲🇧🇾

[m.hrahman]

Armenia is a tiny country but there ego isn't.

[arsenalfan]

Seems that no covid is in Armenia. Much better than my country. We can't even go outside of our house

[solidwisdom]

Im armenian and this is embarrassing, makes our nation look bad

[potemkin]

the host is dressed as the german flag lol

[slavyangolubica]

❤️💙🧡 ✊ ARMENIAN, STAY STRONG ❤️💙🧡 ✊ YOU FOUGHT HONESTLY (unlike others)! YOUR CULTURAL AND CULTURED SPIRIT LIVES!! HEAD UP!!! ❤️✊ ✊ ✊

[comradejiangxina]

Well Armenia is an democratic country compared to its counterpart Azerbaijan which is an Dictatorship under Aliev

[Abraham_Tsfaye]

Armenia is a small and poor country. It's main problem is it's horrendous demographics and stalled economy.
It needs to make peace with it's neighbors.
Any new conflict and the world should put economic sanctions on it.

[lilu]

Karabakh is Azerbaijan and thats it !!! ❣🇦🇿

[TheCrazeturk]

I have never seen people protesting against peace before.

[berdelianar]

Armenia`s military aggression resulted in the occupation by the Armenian armed forces of 20 percent of the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven adjacent districts, including the town of Khankandi, the districts of Khojaly, Shusha, Lachin, Khojavand, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan, as well as 13 villages in Tartar district, 7 villages in Gazakh district and 1 village in Sadarak district in Nakhchivan.