Artsakh Armenians during forced displacement on the road from Stepanakert to Goris (Photo by Siranush Sargsyan)

Editor’s note: This article appeared in the Armenian Weekly’s June 2026 magazine, “Reclaiming Home and Heritage,” which explores how the Armenian community maintains its heritage and culture following genocide and displacement. The issue was edited by Weekly magazine editor Pauline Getzoyan.

Genocide typically physically displaces survivors as part of the elimination of their group from where they lived pre-genocide. Even “mere” displacement is in fact a violent expulsion and alienation from one’s home area. It is easy to dissolve the human pain of displacement in abstract statistics and the illusion of inevitability in our violent world.

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