For the 6th year already, the parents of servicemen who went missing in the 44-day war in Artsakh in 2020 are trying to get any information from the relevant authorities about the whereabouts of their sons. During these years, they knocked on the doors of all state bodies, met with Nikol Pashinyan, but in vain.

Hripsime Hakobyan, the mother of one of the missing servicemen of the “Chemical Unit”, He has been fighting since 2020, he says his grandchildren are growing up, they want their father, he doesn’t know how to answer them.

“Two months ago, we met with Nikol Pashinyan, that was our last meeting. After the meeting, they told us that they would send the answers to all our questions in writing, and they did, but in a very bad way. In this answer, there was an accusation against us, it was mentioned that we allegedly refused to submit DNA. They are very wrong, immediately after receiving the answer, I called Gagik Isakhanyan, Nikol Pashinyan’s assistant, I denied their answer, because they immediately left the “Chemicals Military Unit” and submitted a DNA analysis in 2020.

In other words, what does all this mean, there are bodies, they want us to go and take a DNA analysis and give them to us? I told them that I have facts of enforced disappearance, why should I go and submit an additional DNA analysis, we have done it before, twice.” 168.am–Hripsime Hakobyan said in a conversation with

He is perplexed, he says, he doesn’t know where to go, who to turn to, because the relevant bodies are working ineffectively, especially when he told everyone that he knows that the relatives of the servicemen of the “Chemical Unit” have been giving DNA since the very first day.

“The respective bodies gave a relic from the parents, to which a bone, divided into 3 parts, can you imagine the condition of those parents, that is, whether it be a lot or not a little?” They did a very bad job then, and they are doing the same now. I am waiting for Gagik Isakhanyan’s answer, if not, I will call again soon, including all the parents.

Do you know the situation we are in now? We now have bodies of boys in the morgues, but are they the bodies of our boys? Now, if I have videos where my son was alive, what should I do with those bodies? I told Nikol Pashinyan that those videos did not fall from the air, even the Russian “First Channel” showed how our boys are captured. All that was spread by the Azerbaijanis,” Hripsime Hakobyan added.

He says that he doesn’t understand the logic of the bodies, according to their logic, should they just go and take someone’s body or make it from a grave, when he knows that his son is in Azerbaijani captivity?

“I have always said that Nikol Pashinyan is behind all this, without him, this case will not be opened. Wherever they take us, we will come to meet him again, whatever they do, they do in recognition of him. Previously, the former head of the National Security Service, Armen Abazyan, said, “we will reveal the truth”, if Pashinyan knew about it, the “truth” would have happened, if not, look again, they did nothing.

At that time, at least Armen Abazyan was doing something, after meeting with us, he said that he was with us until the end, but Nikol Pashinyan saw that he was taking some steps and had to get to the point where there would be revelations, he removed Abazyan from the case. He replaced Abazyan with someone who will not do anything, who is not even aware of our affairs. He says: “If I call you, what should I say when I know nothing?” If you don’t know anything, why did you sit there? Don’t you know that the person sitting in that chair should be able to answer his parents? They disgusted and tired us a lot, but here it is about my child, you can’t be disappointed. We are disgusted by their political games,” emphasized our interlocutor.

Speaking about the court hearings in the criminal case named “Chemical Squad”, Hripsime Hakobyan said that during one of the hearings, he asked the judge why the court process is taking so long, what is the reason, the judge answered that the parents should raise some questions.

“I don’t know, maybe they are taking him so that I can take my revenge myself. They work very badly, there is nothing good about our problem, when they see that someone is working well, they immediately fire them. I reminded Nikol Pashinyan that he said that the boys would last 2 more months in Baku prison, but almost 5 years have passed since what he said.

I said, we had two Azerbaijanis caught in Armenia for murder, why did you let them go, at least exchange them, they say, we returned them in a humanitarian way. In other words, they should be philanthropic for Azerbaijan, but Azerbaijan is not for us, that’s what he was saying. They don’t do anything for our child, they tricked us for 6 years and brought us here,” emphasized Hripsime Hakobyan.

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