Only 5-10 percent of Onik Gasparyan’s speech lasting 5-6 hours was included in the report.

About two months before the NA elections, an initiative group was created, which will consistently demand from the current authorities to publicize the report of the investigative commission related to the 44-day war, in particular, through actions organized in front of the NA, which started yesterday, March 24.

The initiating group, the members of which are the chairman of “Luysi Chirag” NGO Arsen Ghukasyanuh Chairman of “Armenian National Front” organization Gevorg Gevorgyan, Chairman of “Reviving Artsakh” NGO Anastas Israelian, attorney Harutyun Baghdasaryan and group coordinator Mikael Margaryanuh the current authorities are required to publicize the findings of the investigative commission, so that the public knows who are guilty, responsible, how this or that order was made, etc.

The members of the group even remembered the statement of Andranik Kocharyan, the chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security Affairs, that there are thousands of criminal cases related to the 44-day war, and new ones will be created as a result of the report.

In particular, Gevorg Gevorgyan noted that for 4-5 years they were saying that “the commission investigating the circumstances of the 44-day war will shed light on all criminals, there will be judicial acts, arrests, but suddenly everyone kept silent about it, as if they delayed the deadlines.” Of course, there are criminal cases, but only the military goes through them, and the judicial examination of many high-profile cases is conducted behind closed doors, in general, important military and high-profile criminal cases.

As for the 44-day report, Andranik Kocharyan has stated on various occasions that it would be correct to make a certain part of the report or the 20-page conclusion public.

Another question is: to what extent will he support the initiative group making such a demand, especially when letters were sent to the NA factions?

And before that, we discussed several episodes related to the 44-day report with Tigran Abrahamyan, secretary of the NA “I have the honor” faction, their faction has already received the letter from the public group.

– Your faction made a political decision from the beginning: noto participate investigator of the commission to the works, for which valid reasons were given. But now side are you and: ready are you support proactive to the group, which is valid requires the authorities to make it public the report, and if this requirement is met, then optional segments will be made public. On time AX: in the session of 2020 On September 30, former head of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan speech with connected bitter experience there iswhen selective and out-of-context excerpts were leaked, and the full transcript was never released despite the general’s request.

In: by the way, to the initiative group that support what? way is to be, when active NA:–in: to the activity little is left, ends.

– When in 2022 the investigative commission was created, and our political force decided not to participate in the work, our main approach was that the government, during whose administration there was a defeat, the consequence of which was thousands of victims, captured, missing, wounded, in this case, that government, regardless of its political views and approaches at that time, could not conduct an objective investigation.

Along with that, there were also other circumstances, for example, the head of the ruling power made statements, by which, in fact, he directed the judicial system in the direction of this or that episode of the war, the military, to take the case in the appropriate direction. Before the court proceedings started, specific people were called traitors and defectors by name. And it was obvious that there was no expectation from that authority to work normally in the investigative commission and to have an objective report.

Regarding the questioning of Onik Gasparyan in the commission, I can say that if I’m not mistaken, there was a 5-6 hour speech (the former head of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia was questioned for 2 days, one day’s questioning lasted more than 5 hours. – M.P.). I’m not familiar with the whole thing, I’ve certainly seen references to his speech in the report, but from what I’ve seen, I think it might have been about 5-10 percent of the full speech.

And the government, naturally, approached all discussions and speakers selectively, and, yes, took the part that was necessary for it in terms of securing its political line.

In other words, the problem was taking responsibility from Nikol Pashinyan and the political leadership and putting it on different circles, particularly the military. And first of all, those military personnel who could or did talk about various episodes were targeted, and the government went that way to silence them and “punish” people in the context of presenting the reality. In the ways and means of supporting that initiative group, my contact with a large number of martyrs, missing people, prisoners, family members of people who were seriously injured does not start today or tomorrow, it started immediately after the war. after. I have met with them on many topics, from actions to discussions on how to move and how to reach a fair resolution of the situation.

Last week I had the opportunity to meet with several people who are quite persistent on this topic, relatives of the missing. We talked with them, I presented my approaches, I said how much I can invest my efforts in the common cause. Moreover, regardless of whether the work of the parliament ends or not, I will fight this issue to the best of my ability.

– In any case, you have familiarized yourself with the “content” of the report. is there episode, topic, the publicity of which can is beneficial not to be the authorities թեկուզ՝ military management from interrogation:

– The vast majority of the facts of the war, pre-war, and post-war period naturally work against the government. And if these primary facts were to be examined by the investigative committee and put in the report, moreover, they were to be published, of course, it would create serious problems for the government, and even the question of their legal responsibility would come to the fore. Therefore, it is natural that they built the 44-day report, especially its introductory and final parts, within the framework of the government’s well-known propaganda narrative, where the facts were secondary, and the formulations, labels, and qualifications were in the first place. which the government used based on political and propaganda expediency.

– By the way, official and: no official frames consider are, that the report does not have legal status, you what? do you have an opinion? that in terms of:

– I don’t want to make an assessment now, whether it has a legal status or not, but I want to remind you that in 2021-2022, in order to calm people down, manipulate them, and shift responsibility, the government constantly referred to the report of the investigative commission, that it will give answers to all questions related to various episodes of war, martyrdom, and capture of people.

And now we actually have a situation where that report has been archived in some capacity, and the people who were told to respond to topics that were considered vital to them through the report, were not actually answered. And in this regard, I consider the demand of those people fair and understandable.

– In the future necessity see? are you, that new investigator committee be created, or Nicole: Pashinyan of power during created of the report publicity enough is:

– I don’t know if in the future it will be done in the form of an investigative commission or law enforcement agencies, but obviously the 44-day war has not only a detailed analysis, but also a legal assessment. There are people who are responsible for the huge loss of life in the area, but they are not reported or seen by law enforcement in any way.

This is a historic turning point, tragic on the one hand, and creating opportunities for our people to move forward on the other. And, of course, all the episodes of this war, from diplomatic to actual military operations, should be investigated in detail, and according to responsibility, law enforcement should also act.

– There are many criminal cases related to the 44-day war, which are closed in the courts and whose statutes of limitations are running out.

– The government has brought up the secrecy factor in almost all matters and they are held behind closed doors. One of them, for example, refers to the former commander of the Armed Forces Mikael Arzumanyan. M. Arzumanyan himself, with whom I had meetings in the penitentiary, raised this topic himself, he said that what was attributed to him by various representatives of the government is slander, and to make sure of it, the court hearings can be held in an open format, and it will become very obvious to the public. But the authorities are not naive, there are various cases, where the priority for them is to conduct them under closed regime, because of these cases holding it in open mode would just explode the lies and falsehoods that the post-war government has spread and tried to present to people as reality.

P.S. Let’s add a few episodes on the topic. 168.amthe other day wrote that after handing over the report of the investigative commission to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Andranik Kocharyan, the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security Affairs of the National Assembly, stated that it was more than 200 pages long, but the other day, in an interview, he said that it was more than 400. Later we were informed that the report has been attached The analysis of the former head of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia Onik Gasparyan (this did not seem to have happened when Tigran Abrahamyan read the report) and Andranik Kocharyan’s letter-analysis sent to Nikol Pashinyan regarding the Su-30s.

Note that in 2025 at the end, Pashinyan in the National Assembly had announced. “Even if there are 6 such investigative commissions, it will not be able to collect more information than what I said.”

Anyway, despite the many writings, Alen Simonyan refused the request of the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Davit Tonoyan to get acquainted with the report. And still in 2021 In a conversation with 168.am, the former head of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs, Onik Gasparyan had said. “The truth can be revealed only in case of a change of power.”

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