Europe is shuts its doors on Syrian Armenians and many of them come to Armenia, Italian journalist Simone Zopellaro writes in Occhi della Guerra.   

The article reads as follows:

“During the five years of war in Syria, small Armenia has hosted over 20,000 refugees. This is the third country in Europe to receive largest number of Syrian refugees as a proportion of total population. Most of those arrived are Armenians and Christians. Many of them have faced economic issues in the country, where poverty and unemployment are rather high. But Europe is closing its doors, and thus many continue to come to Armenia.

Meanwhile, the Armenian leadership has constantly supported Assad’s power. And the military intervention of Russia, Armenia’s traditional ally, only strengthened these ties.  

One hundred years after the Genocide committed by the Turks, a new genocide is taking place in the Middle East, which the international community again fails to pay attention to.

Only several thousand Armenians are left out of over hundreds and thousands in Syria. The rest are dead or have escaped to different parts of the world. The small part left in Syria continues to die, week after week.

Last week four Armenians died in Aleppo. One of them was 20-year old Mireille Hindoyan - a swimming champion and a 3rd year university student - and her 12-year-old brother.”