“Aliyev’s offer to RA citizens and Pashinyan’s answer: “the question of giving a legal assessment of the “genocide” against Azerbaijanis is more than relevant” article: we are published on July 4, where we raised a number of alarms.

A day after that, the Baku propaganda machine remembered Manvel Grigoryan, noting that although the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is over, the peace process is being pushed forward, there are initialed and signed Washington documents, but the First War and its consequences do not give rest, especially when, according to Baku, they have 4,000 missing persons.

“Mass graves of both civilians and prisoners of war are regularly found in the “liberated” areas. In February 2021, a mass grave with the remains of seven people was found in the village of Dashalt (Under the Stone: – M.P.), and the following year in Edillu (Ukhtadzor, the name of General Manvel Grigoryan is also associated with this defense.- M.P.).

Hikmet Hajiyev, the assistant to the president of Azerbaijan, said at the time that it contained the bodies of Azerbaijani servicemen, who, supposedly, “were executed by the Armenian separatist forces during the war of the 1990s” (quotes: M.P.).

In the same year, a mass grave in the village of Sarjal (Akna section: – MP). According to the authorities, there were remains of people killed and buried in 1992. And this is not the complete list,” minval.az wrote, and it is in this context that the Azerbaijani propaganda machine mentions the name of Manvel Grigoryan, claiming that he “kept Azerbaijani captives in his house as a slave”, one of whom, of course, was released.

“But the most important thing is that Armenia still exists. The very Armenia, where Azerbaijani prisoners and hostages were also kept, and where access to the relevant Azerbaijani agencies was closed, for obvious reasons,” claims a country that is currently holding Armenian prisoners and hostages, including the former military-political leadership of Artsakh, or this is a country where Armenian prisoners were killed in captivity long ago from the First War, who, by the way, were kidnapped, etc.

It is another matter that the current authorities of Armenia do not want to speak about this, but this does not “darken” Aliyev’s memory, nor does the struggle against Armenia go aside. Today, more than ever, Baku must divert the attention of the international community from its war crimes, justify the expulsion of the Red Cross from Baku.

The problem is that today they can remember Manvel Grigoryan, who is not alive, and tomorrow they can remember another freedom fighter and commander who is alive.

By the way, one of the “victims” sent to the court during the “trial” in Baku, named Rauf Gafarov, is similar was a testimony gave Against former NKR Defense Minister Samvel Babayan.

In particular, he claimed that “in April 1994, in Varanda, Fizuli region, he was captured and was returned only on May 10, 1996, and during that time, allegedly, he and about 25 Azerbaijanis were forcibly involved in the construction of Samvel Babayan’s house.”

Whether there will be a return to Samvel Babayan in this regard, time will tell, but one thing is clear: they will remember the Armenian freedom fighters and commanders who are on the Azeri target on different occasions and try to update their “file” or use what they already have in order to solve some internal and external problems.

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