On June 4, during the big debate between the first numbers of the pre-election lists of political forces within the framework of the “Armenia chooses” project of the Public TV Company, Nikol Pashinyan stated. «3,755 servicemen died during the 44-day war.”

He noted that this is an official number, and for some reason, he forgot the civilians killed in the 44-day war, who were at the center of hostilities for various reasons.

Let’s remind that NA Speaker Alen Simonyan stated more than once.

“Some rogue oppositionists in this pre-election period are trying to increase the number of our martyred heroes in an exaggerated way, and they say: more than 5,000, 6,000-7,000, up to 10,000. I have to say that this number is not true. That number in criminal cases of the 44-day war There are 3,833, of which 78 are civilians, 3,755 are military personnel.

I wonder if forgetting the 78 civilians who died in the 44-day war is not rude, is there a difference between adding and “discounting” the number of victims?

Իսկ Նիկոլ Փաշինյանը նախընտրական բանավեճի ժամանակ, չհամաձայնելով «Միասնության թևեր» կուսակցության առաջնորդ Արման Թաթոյանի հետ, որ իր իշխանության օրոք մարտական զոհերի թիվը constitutes 4991, asserted.

“From 2018 until today (as a result of combat operations: – M.P.) he died

4 273 person, including civilians”.

As we have already mentioned, the number of victims in the 44-day war is currently according to official data 3833 է՝ excluding approx 190 to the missing, including more than 170 is a soldier.

By the way, recently we have touched on to various figures provided by government officials on the number of missing persons.

But now we are talking about the victims, about which there are different information presented, in which there are also differences compared to the number mentioned in the report of the 44-day investigative commission.

Now let’s try to understand whose presented number is correct: Arman Tatoyan or Nikol Pashinyan?

We have already mentioned that as of now the number of victims of the 44-day war is 3833 During the September 2022 battles, the Armenian side gave 224 victims, except this, in 2023 fip.ampresented statistics on combat casualties for the 5-year period 2018-2022, which did not include the number of war casualties in 2020, and without 593 was

And about the implementation process and results of the RA government program (2021-2026) in 2023 in the report it is noted. “During 2023 in the RA Armed Forces in combat conditions died 19 soldier”.

In addition to this, during the attack of Azerbaijan on September 19-20 in Artsakh in 2023, the victims of the Armenian side, whose number 207 is

In 2024, we also had victims from the enemy or in combat conditions, YKM 4 member

We repeat: these are only combat victims, but in 8 years we have had quite a few non-combat victims and we are dealing with human lives and destinies. Moreover, the number of victims of the 2023 Azerbaijani aggression in the PB fuel warehouse explosion is more than 200, and there are also missing people.

No matter how much Nikol Pashinyan discounts the number of victims during his 8-year prime ministership or the above-mentioned cases, those tragedies happened and cost human lives.

And if the authorities do not agree with these statistics, which contain official information, they can publish the list of victims of the 44-day war, the battles of September 2022 and the Azerbaijani aggression in Artsakh in 2023, why was this not done?

By the way, we also remember that in 2021, the figures of the authorities regarding the victims of the November battles were also contradictory. publish for example, when the Ministry of Defense reported 6 victims, Eduard Aghajanyan, chairman of the RA National Assembly’s Foreign Relations Committee had reported about having at least 15 victims on the Armenian side.

And this government reserves to itself the moral right to accuse someone of falsehood and question whether to respect or not, when they themselves have not always respected their own institutions.

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