Serj Tankian responded to Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds' recent interview and doubled down on criticism of the band's 2023 Azerbaijan concert.
Last September, Imagine Dragons performed in Baku, Azerbaijan, in spite of calls from Tankian and other musicians to cancel the concert. Tankian’s objections stemmed from Azerbaijan’s 2020 invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mostly ethnic-Armenian region of Azerbaijan also known as Artsakh; the Armenian-American artist saw performing in the country as an endorsement of its authoritarian government, which has carried outdefended the concerts. “I think that’s a really slippery slope,” he said.
“They support Ukraine but not Armenians of Artsakh?” he continued. “The only ‘slippery slope’ is the farce moral equivalency at the heart of this hypocritical attitude. I have nothing against this guy nor his band. I just hate artists being taken advantage of to whitewash genocidal dictatorships.”he wouldn’t feel comfortable performing in a country whose government had been accused of the things Azerbaijan had been, per Amnesty International and the International Court of Justice.
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