Law Practice,
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Oct. 13, 2020
Protecting those who, but for us, could forever remain victims
For nearly two weeks now, 7,000 miles away from California, the native Christian-Armenian people of the Republics of Artsakh and Armenia have been weathering the death-wish designs of the armed forces of the neighboring countries of Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Forty years ago, my parents, my grandmother, my sister and I stepped off an Aeroflot airplane at LAX with all of $490 in our pockets. We felt pressed to leave our Armenian homeland and our Yerevan home in order to get a fair shake at economic opportunity and basic rights. In those days, much of what is taken for granted in the United States, seemingly simple things like thinking, moving and speaking freely, bought you a one-way ticket to oppression and obsolescence in...
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