Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian global diaspora protest, rally to help refugees
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00:00 showing strength in numbers far from their ancestral homeland.
00:05 These members of the Armenian diaspora in Beirut gathered outside the Azerbaijani embassy
00:10 on Thursday.
00:11 They were protesting what they called yet another ethnic cleansing, this time in Nagorno-Karabakh.
00:16 "They stole our land.
00:20 We'll keep fighting till the end.
00:23 Armenians across the whole world have the will and will keep fighting for their rights.
00:27 We won't stop until we get our land back."
00:30 Quickly the protest took a violent turn, with Lebanese police using tear gas to disperse
00:36 demonstrators.
00:38 More than two-thirds of the global Armenian community of 10 million people live outside
00:43 the borders of Armenia and send more than one billion US dollars in remittances every
00:48 year.
00:50 Around the world, like here in Paris, the diaspora has been collecting money for ethnic
00:55 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, fleeing the enclave and staging protests to draw attention
01:01 to their cause.
01:02 The head of France's right-wing party, Les Républicains, heeded their call.
01:08 "What brings us together this evening is the requirement and the necessity.
01:15 It's the duty to stand up, to stand up to defend our brothers from Artsakh, to defend
01:23 Armenia."
01:27 On Sunday in Brussels, a group named "Europeans for Artsakh" will be holding a rally to denounce
01:32 what it calls human rights abuses and demand sanctions on Azerbaijani officials.