Pashinyan’s new adviser is the number one person responsible for so many victims in April 2016. Baghdasaryan

Arshak Karapetyan, the former head of the intelligence department of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, was appointed an adviser to the Acting Prime Minister of the RA Nikol Pashinyan yesterday. This news was ambiguously perceived, especially considering Karapetyan’s past.

Investigative journalist, editor of “Hetki” also referred to it Edik Baghdasaryan:

“Former head of the intelligence department of the Armed Forces General Staff, Arshak Karapetyan, has been appointed an adviser to Nikol Pashinyan. The number one responsible for so many victims in April 2016 is the military. He should have been punished, he was only released from his post. The Azerbaijani military launched an attack in different directions and there was no intelligence data. And now he is on the horse again, it’s crazy,” Baghdasaryan wrote on his Facebook page.

Media expert Samvel Martirosyan and, supplementing Baghdasaryan’s note, he wrote:

“I also say, where does the name come from?” Let me also remind you that the intelligence was not aware that Azerbaijan bought kamikaze drones from Israel. As a result, the military was not informed about their possible use. Which caused serious losses on our side. Even months before the press it was known that Israel sold them to two countries. Taking into account that the list of countries to which Israel supplies strike drones is not many, such a conclusion could be reached even without being the head of intelligence. 

To remind, Arshak Karapetyan was dismissed from the position of the head of the intelligence department of the RA Armed Forces General Directorate immediately after the April 2016 war. Since this February, he held the position of military attaché of the Armenian Embassy in Russia.