As We Remember the Armenian Genocide, the U.S. Should Reject Azerbaijan’s Assault on Their Culture

Last September, the Amaras Monastery, one of Christianity’s oldest religious complexes and a sacred site of the Armenian Apostolic Church, was seized by Azerbaijan as it invaded the self-governing Armenian enclave of Artsakh, widely known as Nagorno-Karabakh. The attack violated a 2020 agreement between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia that ended an earlier war and quickly compelled the panicked flight of the enclave’s 120,000 Armenians.The exodus—which ended an almost 4,000-year-old continuous presence and one of the oldest Christian communities in the world—was one of the most…