Almost 6 years have passed since the war, and the names of the victims have not yet been published. Why? Does the state not have the opportunity to verify the names of its fallen soldiers? Of course it has. And then why is it not done? What is being hidden? The number of victims?
All those who think that if it suddenly turns out that in the 44-day war we had not 3,900 victims (the number presented by the authorities), or 5,000 victims (the opposition data), but, for example, 7,000 victims, the pain of the loss will become lighter.
No. The pain will remain the same. It is the same pain that is still taking many of our compatriots to their graves today. Almost every week I receive news about the indefinite departure of some person, mostly from Artsakh. What are those people dying from? Aren’t they victims of the war? What are they? But who will include their name among the victims of war…
And the victims of the military operations that followed the 44-day war? In what list does Nikol’s government want to “place” them? And now he is giving a fight as if he had set it. It seems that if 1000 people had died, the scale of pain and loss would be different…
They measure everything by their standards and try to make us prisoners of the same measure. And you cannot explain to such people that the issue is not even the number of victims. The question is that we have lost our Motherland. And there is no consolation. There is no consolation for one victim, not for 1000, not for 10,000.
Political scientist Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan
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