Former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Colonel-General Seyran Ohanyan last week speechn: In the National Assembly in 2020 About the actions of the Artsakh Defense Army during the 44-day war, the decision-making mechanisms of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and the responsibility of Nikol Pashinyan, and after that, shared by the former head of the Defense Forces, Colonel-General Onik Gasparyan the statement have stimulated a new public debate on the subject of the 44-day war and post-war events.

On topic 168 TVof Revue is the guest of the program Former Chairman of the Defense Industry Committee (2018-2020) Avetik Kerobyan։

The expert emphasizes that in 2020 military clashes on the Tavush border in the summer of 2020. There are many lies circulating about the autumn Forty-four-day war and all the military operations that took place since 2020, and the sad thing is that the Armenian people only know fragmentary truths or half-truths about them.

Regarding the public appeal of the former chief of the general staff to “explode all the lies that are circulating”, Avetik Kerobyan recalls the famous words of the first chancellor of Imperial Germany, Otto von Bismarck: “People never lie more than before elections, during war and after hunting»։

Avetik Kerobyan is convinced that this statement of the former chief of the general staff Onik Gasparyan, with the proposal to organize a closed discussion in the National Assembly on the topic of the 44-day war and post-war events and the call to “explode all the lies that are circulating”, is simply “STAGED”in order to purify Nikol Pashinyan’s political past and guarantee his political future. According to Kerobyan, Onik Gasparyan did not realize the responsibility of his position.

“Here we are dealing not only with Onik Gasparyan’s statements, which should be legally assessed, but also with Nikol Pashinyan’s statements, which are self-confessed statements about official crimes.

Of course, more than 5 years have passed since then, but we must not forget that Nikol Pashinyan gave many self-confessed statements about crimes against the Republic of Armenia and has not been punished to this day,” Avetik Kerobyan noted.

Speaking about the 44-day war and various episodes, the former chairman of the Military Industry Committee specifically mentions the short cease-fire established on October 10, which he personally witnessed, being in front-line positions, and notes that the Armenian side violated it first, and until now there has been no answer as to why the Armenian side violated that cease-fire, why the rocket attack on Gandzak airport was announced.

“I met General Onik Gasparyan for the first time after the war around December 10, when one of our army corps, which was protecting the northern part of the contact line, retreated from Vardenis to Jermuk and even further south and occupied new terrain and was not at all protected even from snow and rain, and you know what winter weather means in the northern positions of Jermuk.

The army was generally in a defenseless state, in unequipped positions, but General Onik Gasparyan was busy shifting the responsibility from himself to the so-called border guard troops. Approximately two and a half months after that, the famous announcement was made, calling for the resignation of the Government.

That evening and the following evening, I also met with Onik Gasparyan, who did not even realize the responsibility that came with the position he held, and I think he did not even realize the responsibility that came with that position during the war, because if the Republic of Armenia did not declare war, Onik Gasparyan remained the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and was obliged to independently make decisions and manage the troops independently.

Along with that, we know of many documented cases that persons without any official authority participated in the management of the troops, for example, the wife of the Prime Minister at that time… And we also know that Onik Gasparyan allowed Nikol Pashinyan to make decisions and reveal the planned actions of the Armed Forces during the ongoing military operations in an interview given to the foreign media, we remember the famous interview of “RBK”, and did not take measures to ensure at least the information security of the troops under his command. in part.

At that time, Onik Gasparyan was obliged to issue an order to arrest Nikol Pashinyan, because the man was in an unbalanced state and was carrying out actions contrary to the interests of the RA Armed Forces. He didn’t do it. Of course, that time has passed, but standing up today and saying, “You know what’s going on, I’m ready to face it, but behind closed doors”, I’m sorry, is a very poorly hidden attempt to clean up Nikol Pashinyan’s political past and guarantee his political future,” commented Avetik Kerobyan.

Our interlocutor also reminds that the current government as in 2016 Four-day war, as well as 2020 He formed two investigative commissions on the issues of the 44-day war, both headed by Andranik Kocharyan, chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security Affairs of the National Assembly, whose reports remained confidential.

“During the past 5 years, they had a lot of time to hide many facts and traces, to hide the facts, to lose the traces. I am sure that corrections were made in the operational planning maps in order to hide the ignorance, the ignorance, to hide the reasons for the failures.

I am sure that the postponement of the publication of the report of this investigative commission and the consequent non-discussion at the plenary session aim at one thing: to hide one’s own crimes, to hide one’s own inaction and the large territorial and human losses that occurred as a result of that inaction. Kocharyan Andranik must give answers. Alen Simonyan, who is currently the Speaker of the National Assembly and is obliged to answer to the Armenian people about all this, must give answers, because the National Assembly is not a group with narrow interests. The National Assembly is responsible to the people, it is the only structure endowed with a primary mandate in our country,” Kerobyan added.

Let’s remind that on April 17, the leader of the National Assembly “Hayastan” faction, former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan, addressing Nikol Pashinyan, from the podium of the National Assembly had announcedthat if the generals escaped, it is Nikol Pashinyan’s responsibility.

“The Defense Army, Mr. Pashinyan, had a defense zone of 283 km, of which they kept 265 km for a month until October 27. The generals you mentioned escaped through that area, and I think that it is your responsibility, because if the General Staff makes the decision, the General Staff or Artsakh President approves, and if there are several military units, the General Staff and several Armenian military units, then the Chief of the General Staff makes the decision there, and you approve. In your area of ​​responsibility, Azerbaijan has bypassed and reached the borders of Shushi, Berdzor, Berdadzor and the borders of the Republic of Armenia: Goris, Kapan, Meghri,” Ohanyan said in particular.

To this announcement on April 19 had responded Onik Gasparyan, the former head of the General Assembly, proposing to organize a closed discussion in the National Assembly in 2020.  on the subject of the war and post-war events and declaring that “it is time to face reality and explode all the lies and unnecessary speculations that are being circulated”.

Nikol Pashinyan, in response to a journalist’s question during a briefing on April 2, confirmed his statement that he called some generals “cowards” and “robbers”.

“I did not say that the generals are cowards, I said that there are cowardly generals and deserters, and yes, many of them are on trial. We have looting generals who go through illegal property cases, and we have generals who go through corruption cases, and the shoulder of the general is no one… In general, I think we have to use the word “hero” very carefully, because we have used the word so much that, in fact, we have blurred the real heroes into verbal heroes. Or what is the news that they once again turned it into a subject of dispute? The fact that we have tens of thousands of people who refused to perform the combat task, who are we hiding from? I want to understand…

You know what, people should not associate their escape, their robbery with my orders. I did not give such orders. People wanted to receive such orders, I never gave such orders. Whoever says such a thing is from the army of robbers. I apologize to all those people who fulfilled their civil and military duty to the end. In conversation, it turns out that wet and dry are mixed. I never mix wet and dry and call people and things by their names.

Yes, we have had cowardly generals. What will happen to a person who became a general as a result of corruption? Or, in general, does he look like a soldier? “Who is the general who threw his stomach 3 meters to his face?” Nikol Pashinyan specifically said.

Full interview in the video.

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