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Wartime military spox says “many things are unclear” around fall of Shushi

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 11:48, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. The former spokesperson for the Armenian military who was in charge of conveying information to the public during the 2020 Artsakh War claims that the situation in Shushi during the last three days of the conflict sharply changed several times.

“Many things are unclear for me in Shushi,” Lt. Colonel Artsrun Hovhannisyan, who was the coordinator of the Unified InfoCenter told reporters in parliament referring to the town of Artsakh which was captured by Azeri forces.

“I was in Shushi on the 6th [of November 2020], on the 7th, 8th and 9th the situation completely and abruptly changed several times in Shushi, according to the Ministry of Defense information,” he said.

Hovhannisyan says he is now studying individual episodes of the war, and in his words there are many combat episodes which are “unclear” to him.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS