The Biden-Harris administration's priorities are:
advance LGBT agenda and Climate change alarm in its foreign policy. President Donald Trump has identified another priority for future administrations. It is about fighting the brutal persecution of Christians around the world.
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noticed Truth Social on Wednesday said, “While 120,000 Armenian Christians were horribly persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh, Kamala Harris did nothing. If Kamala Harris were president of the United States, the world Christians inside will not be safe.”
“If I become president, I will protect persecuted Christians, work to stop violence and ethnic cleansing, and restore peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Trump added.
The Republic of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, is a region in the Caucasus Mountains within the borders of Azerbaijan.
Although internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, its close ally Turkey, formerly part of the Ottoman Empire,
killed 1.5 million Armenians The region, considered the first genocide of the 20th century, was home to more than 100,000 Armenian Christians who contested Azerbaijan's territorial claims until at least September 2023.
region
independent Armenia was founded in 1923 as the world's oldest country of christianitythe population of Azerbaijan is 97.3% Muslimboth of which were still members of the former Soviet Union.
Two bloody wars have been fought over the region in the past 30 years. The first time was in 1988 and the second time was in 2020.
Azerbaijan — given military aid Despite this, the Biden-Harris administration war crimes and torture Number of Armenian prisoners of war — launched blitzkrieg into the region on September 19, 2023; dissolution Eliminate the Armenian enclave by January 1st.
Azerbaijani forces killed hundreds of Armenians and added further insult with vandalism
church and cemetery. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forced into it. run away.
“Vice President Harris, whose administration armed Azerbaijan with its genocidal blockade and assault on Artsakh, has not lifted a finger or even raised a voice against Azerbaijan’s invasion in 2023. ”
Armenia and Azerbaijan are
engaged Peace negotiations have been underway in the months since then.
While there were some
complain In recent years, State Department officials claimed In a September 2023 Senate hearing, the United States stated that “any action or effort, whether short-term or long-term, aimed at ethnic cleansing or other atrocities against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh is prohibited. “We will not tolerate it,” but the Biden-Harris administration did not. It was rather helpful to Armenian Christians.
American Armenian National Committee
blown up In July, the Democratic Party of Japan administration was criticized for its “dual-pronged policy.”
ANCA said in a statement:
There is no clearer example of the Biden-Harris administration's double-minded policy toward Armenia than USAID Director Samantha Power's inaction during Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh and ethnic cleansing. Power admits a serious humanitarian crisis is unfolding as Azerbaijan deprives Artsakh's 120,000 Armenians of access to food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian supplies in brazen violation of international law I refused. The genocidal ethnic cleansing of the entire Armenian population of Artsakh, even though the United States had every opportunity to prevent it, misplaced the existence of the region's indigenous Christian Armenians for geopolitical interests. It was a humanitarian catastrophe that they chose to sacrifice and enable.
ANCA added that the administration's inaction “will weigh heavily on the minds of Armenian American voters this November, including voters in key battleground states Nevada and Michigan, as well as Pennsylvania. ” he pointed out.
As of 2021, Over 2 million An American of Armenian descent.
In late September, Harris expressed support for the return of Armenian Christians to Artsakh.
ANCA Secretary General Aram Hamparian
said In response, “Kamala Harris has spent a full year as vice president working toward Artsakh's right to return through a U.S.-led resolution at the United Nations Security Council, but she (We have only just begun to speak to Armenian Americans (rather than U.N. members) about this right.'') This right will be discussed 40 days before a potentially decisive election for Armenian voters in key battleground states. Ta. ”
“Remarkably, Vice President Harris (whose administration armed Azerbaijan’s genocidal blockade and Artsakh offensive) has not lifted a finger or even raised a voice against Azerbaijan’s invasion in 2023. Even at the level of campaign rhetoric, she has not said a word about reducing U.S. military arms and aid to Azerbaijan or otherwise holding Baku accountable for its crimes.” added Hamparian.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) echoed President Trump on Wednesday, saying:
write“The United States should fight the persecution of Christians around the world and will do so once President Trump returns to the White House. Kamala Harris is doing nothing.”
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy I wrote“We are very happy to see President Trump speaking out about the persecution and displacement of Armenian Christians in Artsakh. It is our job to denounce the hypocrisy of the foreign policy establishment, and we are committed to simply addressing this issue. I refuse to hide it.”
Artsakh is not the only place where brutal regimes and extremists are trying to crush Christians and their faith.
According to According to persecution watchdog Open Doors, 317 million Christians around the world face very high or extreme levels of persecution. Last year, 4,998 Christians reportedly They were massacred for reasons related to their faith. 14,766 churches and Christian institutions were attacked. More than 295,000 Christians were evacuated.
The top 10 countries with the worst persecution for Christians are, in order, North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Perhaps the developed countries higher on the list aren't much better either. For example, China exposes Christians to everyday life.
torture, detentionand execution.
Persecution and attacks are also on the rise in Western countries such as the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
Ariel Del Turco, director of the Family Research Council's Center for Religious Freedom, said in a report earlier this year that there were nearly 1,000 acts of hostility against the American church between 2018 and 2023. .
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