Dear compatriots, May 28, 1918 is the turning point in Armenian history. It was on May 28 that the people, who had escaped the genocide, replaced the death sentence with the creation of statehood.

In Sardarapat, Bash Aparan and Gharakilisa, we proved that there is no such weapon in the world that can defeat the will to live in one’s own land. Faithful to its mission, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation undertook the superhuman mission of state building under the most difficult conditions. In a country full of orphans and refugees, in the midst of famine and wars, the founding generation of the Republic, Aram Manukyan, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Garegin Nzhdeh, Dron, Ruben Ter-Minasyan and other devotees, did the seemingly impossible and broke the destiny of our people.

Today we are again at a fateful stop. The course of our statehood is in doubt, our identity is under attack, our church is persecuted, our people are emigrants, Armenian Artsakh is lost.

But we know that the spirit of the heroic battles of May is still alive among the Armenian people, that our generations know themselves from Sardarapat.

Therefore, it is time to sober up, unite and stand up for our values ​​with national resistance. This is a struggle for identity and statehood, this is a new Sardarapat. We will stand up for independent Armenian statehood, we will restore our national dignity and we will not allow the fate of Armenians to be written at the behest of a foreigner.

We are, we will fight and we will win. Happy May 28.

Supreme body of ARF Armenia

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