STEPANAKERT, ARTSAKH REPUBLIC – The Human Rights Defender of the Artsakh Republic, Gegham Stepanyan, also weighed in on the distasteful comments made recently by American rock singer Serj Tankian against a young Armenian woman in Artsakh.
In the statement, Stepanyan states “The words of hatred and insult, including Serj Tankian’s insulting comment to a young Armenian woman, are condemnable. Blaming and insulting each other, and using unacceptable wording only harms us, Armenians.”
Earlier this week, Tankian had used expletives online against a young Armenian woman living in Artsakh who expressed her opinion that Tankian was a traitor for his collaboration with the Pashinyan regime, who has signaled that it is willing to hand over control of Artsakh to Azerbaijan. Tankian told the woman, in Armenian, to “go fuck yourself.”
