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The march started at the M. Mažvydas National Library. The participants of the march march down the Gediminas Avenue to the Cathedral Square, from there they turn towards Vokiečių Street.
Many participants of the march carry Armenian flags and Lithuanian flags can also be seen. The participants chant “Lithuania against the dictatorship”, “Arcach is Armenia”, “No to genocide”, “No to dictatorship”, “Erdogan terrorist”.
Portal 15 minutes Amelia, interviewed participant of the march, said she was here because she wanted to help draw attention to the events in Armenia.
“Armenians from all over the world have come together. Armenians in Lithuania also gathered to draw attention to what is happening in our country. And there is a very unjust war with Azerbaijan. We call it terrorism. We want to prevent a second genocide.” Amelia said.
He said he was confident that more Lithuanians would be interested in what was happening in Armenia after this march.
VIDEO: March against terrorism in Azerbaijan and Turkey in Vilnius
“We want people to know the facts. That the situation is bad, “he said.
Another protester, Armian, said he attended the march to support his homeland and the nation, which he said was “leading a holy war against aggressors and terrorism.”
“It is really important for us now to pay as much attention as possible to the whole world, to recognize the independence of Arcach in the first place and to give a forceful response to terrorism and war. Because the whole world is silent,” said Armian. He assured that he was happy that at least some Lithuanians understood the situation in Armenia.
Photo by Ernesta Čičiurkaitė / 15 min photo / March against terrorism in Azerbaijan and Turkey
The march will end in the Cathedral Square, where representatives of the Armenian community will deliver speeches.
The march is organized by the Lithuanian Armenian Union and the Baltic Armenian Alliance.
According to the organizers of the march, they are targeting “against terrorism and aggression in Azerbaijan and Turkey with the aim of carrying out a second phase of the genocide against the Armenian people.”
The conflict has lasted a long time.
Fierce fighting has been taking place in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region for more than a month. However, this is only the last stage of an ancient conflict.
VIDEO: Ceasefire ended as soon as it entered into force: new clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh
Already in the twentieth century. In the first half, when both Azerbaijan and Armenia became Soviet republics, the government of the USSR annexed Nagorno-Karabakh, whose majority population was ethnic Armenians, to Azerbaijan. The Armenians call the Arcachu of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Figure from Wikimedia Commons / Karabakh Mountain Territory
And now Azerbaijan considers Nagorno-Karabakh as its territory. However, since the collapse of the USSR, Nagorno-Karabakh has been controlled by Armenian separatists with the support of the Armenian state. Armenian forces also control part of the territory of Azerbaijan between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani and Armenian separatists have been involved in acute conflict over this mountainous province since the 20th century. The war of the nineties, which cost about 30 thousand. lives.
The protracted conflict flared up again on September 27, when violent clashes broke out.
The resumption of fighting has claimed the lives of hundreds of people, and the world’s most influential nations have so far failed to persuade either side to the conflict to end it. The United States, along with France and Russia, have chaired the so-called Minsk Mediation Group, which has led the peace talks since 1994, when a ceasefire was declared in Karabakh.
It is not clear who is to blame for the resumption of fighting. Both parties accuse each other of not wanting to compromise and seek a peaceful solution to the conflict. A ceasefire was agreed in Moscow earlier this month after the talks, but the agreement had almost no effect on the fighting.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said that a long-term ceasefire is only possible if Armenian forces withdraw from Nagorno-Karabakh and all neighboring occupied regions of Azerbaijan.
At the time, Armenian Prime Minister Nikola Pashinian had repeatedly called on the international community to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that Armenians living there would not be safe if the region was ruled by Azerbaijan.
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