Ten years ago, on this very day...

12:44:00 02.04.2026

Ten years ago, on this very day, I woke up and learned that a war had broken out in Artsakh and I got goosebumps all over my body. At that time, I was living in California, where I had also been born and raised my entire life. During that period of my life, I was working as a physics adjunct professor at Glendale Community College (GCC). A year earlier, I had completed my master’s degree at California State University (where I had also taught from 2013 to 2015), and on the side, I tutored students individually in mathematics. However, at the beginning of 2016, I had already decided that I needed to establish a base in Armenia and began gradually sending my belongings there. I felt that sooner or later I would have to take such a step, but I was not yet fully convinced, and therefore I had not made a decisive move. For many years, deep in my soul, I felt that I had an important mission to fulfill for my Homeland, but I did not fully understand what that mission was, and so I delayed taking the step of moving to Armenia.

But the start of the April Four-Day War changed everything—it became a turning point for me. Those days were a huge alarm for me, where every cell in my body began receiving signals from the Fatherland like antennas. It was an alarm for all true Armenian nationalists scattered across the world, warning that our native land was in danger, and I decided to respond to that challenge. At that moment, I stood at a crossroads and had to make a decision: either I would abandon my mission and continue pursuing my career and live a normal life in the U.S., or I would take personal responsibility, accept my mission, and go to the Araratian Land to fight—a land where humanity had been given a second chance.

The war ended in just a few days, and the majority of Armenian “patriots” in the U.S. went back to their daily lives as if nothing had happened, but its impact remained on me. It became crystal clear to me what I had to do without hesitation, because I was no longer the same. For this reason, a few months later I resigned from my job, took my savings, bought a one-way ticket, and moved to Armenia, where I had neither a home, nor family, nor relatives, nor friends.

Years later, as I began to study and understand more deeply what was happening in our country and against our country, I realized that the April Four-Day War was, in fact, the beginning of a new war against our independent statehood in the 21st century, because from 1994 to 2016 everything had been relatively frozen. What is happening to us today did not begin in 2023, or in 2020, or even in 2018, but precisely in 2016.

During those days of war, I was a spectator, watching from afar what was happening, but I promised myself that in the next war—which I knew was certainly coming—I would not be a passive observer, but an active participant. That is why on September 27, 2020, when I woke up and learned that war had again broken out in Artsakh, I immediately knew without hesitation what I had to do. Staying true to my word, I gathered my things and volunteered for the war two days later.

We were betrayed in the war, we were humiliatingly defeated, and Artsakh fell under enemy occupation, but the flame of struggle that had ignited ten years ago did not die in me; instead, it intensified and became directed. And the call of the land that I heard during those days did not disappear—it continues to resonate powerfully in my heart and soul. I finally realized that it was also a call of destiny. I turned all these feelings and ideas into political struggle and created and now lead a movement that embodies all of it.

As improbable as it may seem at this moment, I have no doubt that we, as a nation, will achieve our goal and fulfill our historic sacred mission—this time not only by liberating Artsakh once again and fully uniting it with Armenia, but also by liberating all of our other historically occupied lands that lie within the terrorist state of Azerbaijan by bringing Baku to its knees once and for all.

What our freedom fighters left unfinished in the previous century, we will undoubtedly bring to completion in this new century with our unbreakable will and unwavering struggle—for the sake of our heroic ancestors and future generations.

One Nation, One State, One Will

Towards Greater Armenia, Towards a Glorious Future!

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