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Serj Tankian on the threat of genocide in Artsakh

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Throughout his career, first as the lead singer of System of a Down and more recently as a solo artist, Serj Tankian has been a political activist.

His progressive worldview is written into his music — take "Temper," "B.Y.O.B.," and "War" for starters — and he's equally outspoken whenever he steps off stage and addresses the media.

An Armenian-American whose grandfather survived the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Tankian has been particularly vocal about the plight of Armenians and the danger of genocide denial in the 21st century.

That danger has come to the fore again this month with a war as shelling continues in the Republic of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, an overwhelmingly ethnic Armenian enclave recognized internationally as a.

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