“Ancestors of my mother are from Nagorno-Karabakh, from where my great-grandparents were forced to leave for Central Asia. My grandfather was 5 then, their family was evicted. He did silkworm breeding in Kyrgyzstan. One of my uncles tried to make our family-tree to understand who’s on its roots. It turned out, that mother’s side of my great-grandmother is the relative of my favorite composer—Aram Khachatryan. A crucial meeting in my teenage years was acquaintance with Genady Astsaturyan, Armenian composer and arranger living in Crimea. He taught me to jazz, listening to hard music, and did arrangement for me. I was a member of the Astsaturyans, and was visiting Armenian parties..”
“I saw deep patriotism, I saw endurance and combat readiness among the people, but if our actions don’t speak louder than words, sensitive, patriotic outbursts will turn into a bubble and vanish. The enemy is always awake, we should realize whether we’re sleepless too. The Azerbaijani is the same Turk, able to barbaric, genocide-like actions—to behead and cut the ear. This isn’t linked to war, this is barbarism, new expression of Turk’s genocide spirit. After all this we should seriously ponder: why? How did it happen? And what we should do in future? Every person has lots of words to say, nice ones, however, it should be put aside and we should think of our follow-ups,” Aram A, His Holiness Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, told “Armenpress” today. Below is introduced an excerpt from the interview.
“And it refers bodies of our killed soldiers, who were in the defensive positions, plus lots of evidence as well. Documents are available from the downed helicopter crew, which prove that they pursued big purpose, they intended to penetrate into the defense army, and proof for it is available. All this will be submitted to the international community. Of course, from legal and humanitarian standpoint as well, together will all mutilations of the bodies of killed soldiers, implemented by the Azerbaijani armed forces or maybe by mercenaries.”
But they didn’t run. Just the contrary. Armenian millionaire takes his son from the comfortable Oxford and sends him to war, but not to some special military unit, but to the frontline, under Russian “solntsepyok.” As it’s crucial for him to have a brave son, than an advanced economist.
Notes have been taken in the notebook of one of the pilots, made on March 31, “Black box is yellow. It’s written: the pilot should fly the helicopter from Kala airport of Baku to military airbase of Kurdistan. It’s written that he performed 2 flights: 6 and 11 minutes each, totally 148 liters of kerosene have been consumed.
What occurred throughout recent few days, was a real lesson to us. Starting from ordinary worker, to the highest state circle. We understood, that fight against corruption, rule of law, human rights protection, democracy and other values, are not just simple, nice words. Our fate and that of our country depend on them. Yes, it did cost us dear, but we realized that we need to have a powerful economy to have a powerful army, and for a powerful economy, we need to have a normal country and trust towards the state.
“Don’t speak.” Should be told to those, who in reply to DIRECT questions on arms sales to Azerbaijan by Russia, arms, which killed Armenian soldiers and children, start talking profusely and protect Russian interest within the boundaries of their thought and language flexibility.
Particularly, touching upon accusations on Russia by Armenian and Azerbaijani circles, that Russia blocks final settlement of the conflict, Lukyanov stated he agreed, that both in Yerevan and Baku, the role of Moscow in conflict settlement is being much touched upon, that the settlement key is in Moscow, that unsettled conflict is beneficial to the Kremlin, as it provides influence levers towards the whole South Caucasus. According to him, such a stage was really existent.
“This is an old problem, a long-standing conflict. Unfortunately, there was an outbreak of violence. A compromise should be found. I thought we were close to it a few years ago, but things turned out to be different.”
“It’s a rather crucial step, at least in memory of those tortured and mutilated people, for the sake of their families, friends and all the people in the world, who bothered, sympathized and watched those barbaric cadres. Firstly, it’s necessary to give moral assessment to those atrocities. Secondly, it’s important from the viewpoint of international policy and international law, i.e. calling things by their names. At least, scrutinized investigation of all incidents should be implemented, and this, of course, is another argument in favor of the Armenian side.”
