Does Pashinyan have any plans regarding the publication of the 44-day report? why A?

On April 17, during the discussion of the performance of the RA government’s plan for 2025 in the National Assembly, in his speech, the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, the head of the “Armenia” faction, Seyran Ohanyan, referred to the 44-day war of 2020, the responsibility of the political leadership in its initiation and defeat.

In particular, according to him, the inadequate management of Nikol Pashinyan’s power, conflicting political statements, actions that damaged the existing negotiation process, led to the 44-day war of 2020.

“Of course, the main culprit is Azerbaijan who started the military operations, but during the war you did nothing to mobilize the country, achieve success and fulfill the task before us, we were able to fulfill that task,” Seyran Ohanyan said.

The fact that the authorities failed the mobilization plan during the 44-day war, we have argued more than once.

And the colonel-general did not avoid Nikol Pashinyan’s accusations addressed to the generals from the NA podium.

“Mr. Pashinyan says that the generals ran away. The leadership of the National Assembly and the deputies came to the place where there was a need for reservists who had left the field of combat for one reason or another. Meanwhile, the deputies did not hesitate to go, at least for a few hours, to work with the “mob resource” (reservists. – ed.). Who ran away now? did the generals run away or the parliamentarians who were there? And I know some of them,” insisted the former Minister of Defense.

Seyran Ohanyan, of course, does not say who those deputies were, and what phase of the war it was said, but we can recall a few episodes here.

First of all, let’s mention: 168.amis an analysis submitted that the militia law was adopted at the end of the 44-day period, and before its adoption after Nikol Pashinyan’s Facebook call, to say the least, frivolous, led by governors and community heads volunteer squads were formed, we repeat, the laws related to the creation of the militia had not yet been adopted at that time, and there were no corresponding deputy governors.

Can we report any legal or legal issues here? And to what extent this issue became a subject of discussion in the NA investigative committee studying the circumstances of the 44-day war, is not known. Moreover, no one knows whether this and investigative and where were the volunteer squads of law enforcement agencies deployed during the war, what combat operations did they participate in?

Recently, for example, we asked the RA Investigative Committee, among a number of other questions, where their volunteer detachment was during the 44-day period, to which sector it was sent, but they avoided this topic. And nothing that in 2020 RA Investigative Committee during the war message spread that “following the call of the RA Prime Minister, 180 volunteers were enlisted to participate in the sacred work of protecting the motherland.”

“Four platoons were formed, 2 of which, on October 28, headed by the chairman of the RA Investigative Committee, went on combat duty through the RA Armed Forces General Staff,” the Central Committee detailed.

By the way, these days we are exclusive documents հրապարակել՝ Evidence of desertion and desertion among police and prison officers during the 44-day war. And the number of deserters and those who have left their positions reaches several hundreds.

We still do not mention the political-propaganda military units and squads formed in those days, if we can say so.

Secondly, we presented separate studies today to the Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan, Mayor of Yerevan Tigran Avinyan, worked as director of National Security Service in a certain part of the war Argishti Kyaramyan and others’ role-playing.

Here it is necessary to remember the well-known counterattack operation, which was discussed in Artsakh were present Nikol Pashinyan, Former president of Artsakh Araik Harutyunyan, Jalal Harutyunyan, Argishti Kyaramyanas the director of the RA NSS, in the capacity of the director of the Artsakh NSS: Kamo Aghajanyan, as the RA NA President: Ararat Mirzoyan, in the capacity of Secretary of the Council of Artsakh: Samvel Babayan, then government deputy Hakob Simidyan and others.

It is a different matter that the former commander of the National Security Service Jalal Harutyunyan was accused of the failure of this operation, then he was acquitted, and it is nothing that after the failure of this operation, Argishti Kyaramyan was dismissed from the post of National Security Service Director on October 8, 2020.

Third, 168.amthe wrote that on the 4th day of the war, Tigran Avinyan approved a plan to install photovoltaic plants in Shushi, and days before the fall of Shushi, on November 5, the President of Artsakh, Araik Harutyunyan, on his Facebook page had reported that is in Shushi, and Tigran Avinyan was also seen in the published photos.

It’s no secret that after being released from the position of National Security Service director, during the 44-day war, Argishti Kyaramyan continued to stay in Artsakh, was in Shushi, and from there, like never before said Former RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, 2020 At 5:30 AM on November 5-6, he left the city of Shushi and was stationed a little below the city of Shushi, and Argishti Karamyan was also in the same car.

Moreover, on November 7, the former Minister of Defense arrived in Yerevan in the same car with Argishti Karamyan to discuss some issues related to armaments. They will know what developments happened after that. And Seyran Ohanyan in Shushi during the war had met also at that time to the Governor of Ararat Garik Sargsyan. And the fact that Seyran Ohanyan announced today from the podium of the National Assembly that the government deputies ran away, maybe he knows something.

On the other hand, in the context of the 44-day war, the government has from time to time made various accusations against him and his son, the commander of the Tsori military unit, Artur Ohanyan, the last one today. passes In the Lele Tepe case, and quite remarkably during the court hearings announcements has done that high-ranking military personnel are not held accountable for the failure of the counterattack.

And the former Minister of Defense in his speech during the discussion of the implementation of the RA government’s plan for 2025 in the National Assembly once again emphasized that during the 44-day war, the Artsakh Defense Army had a 283 km defense zone, of which “they kept 265 km for one month, until October 27, 2020”.

“The generals you mentioned fled through that area, and I believe that it is within your responsibility, because the Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces makes a decision there, and you approve it. Through your zone of responsibility, Azerbaijan has bypassed and reached the borders of Shushi, Berdzor, Berdadzor and the Republic of Armenia – the borders of Goris, Kapan, Meghri. Now you say that the generals escaped, they escaped under your leadership, go and make a decision,” Seyran Ohanyan addressed Nikol Pashinyan in the parliament.

Below this statement by the Defense Minister are some footnotes. For example, the fact that the 1st Army Corps of the RA Armed Forces is called to protect the rear of the 9th Army. On one occasion during the war, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, trying to protect Jalal Harutyunyan, in an interview had said. 

“The 9th PS of the Armed Forces was completely removed from its subordination, a completely different command was created, and a different person was in charge. In other words, the 9th Infantry Division and the 1st Corps of the RA Armed Forces formed a joint southern direction, the commander of which was Lieutenant General Tiran Khachatryan. In other words, no matter how many fronts of active combat operations Jalal Harutyunyan conducted, if we add up all the kilometers, Jalal Harutyunyan, as the commander of the Defense Forces, conducted a maximum of one defensive district front battle. All accusations are populist and baseless.”

Can we say that in the case of such statements, the arrow is pointed directly at the leadership of the RA Armed Forces during the war, although there are also clear facts that in 2020 On September 27, he did not pass the defense of the 9th PS of the Defense Ministry.

On the other hand, they are not out of line with the fact that Nikol Pashinyan, as the supreme commander, is responsible for what happened, that Onik Gasparyan, who was the head of the General Staff, was subjected to him. Another question is: how legal was it, since it was announced in RA? martial law.

But if we talk about the responsibility of the units of the RA Armed Forces, then we should not forget that the 2nd Army Corps of the RA Armed Forces, which was handed over to Azerbaijan by the November 9 document, has a big contribution to keeping Karvachar. But this does not prevent Pashinyan from putting all the responsibility for the defeat of 2020 on the army. And that is why today Seyran Ohanyan demanded from Pashinyan to publish the 44-day report.

“Why don’t you publish the report of the 44-day war? The people demand it, the relatives of the missing also demand it. Because you put the main emphasis on the army, I asked the Chairman of the Investigative Committee under your authority and the General Prosecutor: please tell me how many of the initiated criminal cases refer to the army and how many to other institutions. But they avoided… Because the war is not conducted by the army, which you did not support, but by the state. Now you ask them a question: is the army alone responsible for this, or are the others responsible?

Later, Pashinyan answered Seyran Ohanyan’s last demand from the NA podium.

“Now, the report of the investigative commission has arrived… let’s say, isn’t it clear to you that it will also be published in some way,” he said, without referring to the other episode questions related to the 44-day war before that.

So, it is not excluded that Pashinyan will make some parts of the report public at a politically advantageous moment. At the moment, the political interests demand to display the new weapons acquired after 2022, and the authorities do not even hide that this will be done on May 28 in the Republic Square only to get votes and not to let the opposition forces into the parliament. In other words, the army has become a political tool, and at best a backup security player and nothing more.

As for whether the military leadership during the 44-day war will join Seyran Ohanyan’s demand that the report of the 44-day war be published in its entirety, one can speculate. Although Onik Gasparyan and Davit Tonoyan should also demand that the full transcripts of the SC sessions of September 30 and October 19, 2020 be made public, in the end, the authorities declassified some parts of the session of September 30 that were taken out of context. Will they demand, in the end, here, first of all, it is a question of their and the army’s reputation, and not to answer later for what they are not responsible for?

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