Shushi’s loss did not begin during his defense, but much earlier.

6 years ago today, May 9, 2020, Nikol Pashinyan and Anna Hakobyan had left Artsakh to celebrate the Triathlon.

“Shushi gives us greater confidence in our strengths, our future, our present. We all have a collective and united debt to our martyrs. We have to fulfill that debt with honor and return that debt tenfold to their descendants,” declared Pashinyan at that time, who had managed to say before that, “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it.”

And then, in the 44-day war of 2020, Shush was lost or surrendered in a planned manner, although Nikol Pashinyan rejected Russian President Putin’s proposal to stop the war on October 19, 2020, because the Azerbaijani refugees would return there, but the fortress city would remain under the control of the Armenian side. Or, as if Pashinyan was very affected by receiving the news of losing Shush on November 7, 2020, and at that time he instructed Onik Gasparyan, the head of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, to take actions to take it back.

“On the afternoon of November 7, the head of the General Directorate of Security, Onik Gasparyan, reported to me about Shushi’s fall… Upon hearing the news of Shushi’s fall, my first reaction was the demand to do what you promised: to keep Shushi, to take him back. After all, I was informed about the countermeasures…” he said on June 20, 2023 at the Investigative Committee.

Another question is that, as on one occasion we wroteIn what capacity did Pashinyan give the order to take Shushi back with a counterattack?՝ as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia or as the supreme commander?

It is also a fact that for not properly organizing the defense of Shushi, only the former commander of the Armed Forces, General Mikael Arzumanyan, is accused, whose accusation ends on November 7, and the countermeasures were carried out after November 7 on the order of Pashinyan.

RA Investigative Committee in 2024 168.amto had reported that in 2020 The events that took place in the direction of Shushi after November 7 became the subject of investigation.

And Mikael Arzumanyan published in July 2023 statement referring to the organization of Shushi’s defense, in particular, he noted:

“I assumed the command of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh on October 27, 2020, in such an extremely difficult situation, when the enemy had already crossed several defense zones and approached the Shushi border, a chaotic situation reigned in the army, the enemy had unconditional superiority both in the air and on the ground. In the current situation, I did my best to confront the enemy, who was numerous times superior in number and weaponry, and in some cases we had serious successes.

However, the enemy has concentrated more forces and resources, which the Armenian side did not have sufficient human or weapon resources to resist, which the political leadership was well aware of.

And the accusations brought against me are directly related to the political situations prevailing in Armenia at specific moments, to the chronology of accusations against each other by different people regarding Shushi’s handover.

It was for this purpose that I was chosen as a target, so that some people would try to wrap their accusations against me.

Those who know me are well aware that since the age of 18 I have been fighting for my Motherland with a weapon in my hand, and I am one of the first people to enter Shushi after the liberation of Shushi.

Therefore, I do not consider it a coincidence that I was chosen as a target.”

By the way, the CC stated in its message that it is based on the period starting from October 30.

2020 on October 29 168.amArkady Karapetyan, the first commander of the NKR Self-Defense Army (Ago) in a conversation with alarm was that the war has reached under the walls of Shushi, and Azerbaijan wants to take Shushi, and not only that, but the President of Artsakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, on the same day had reported՝ “The enemy is at most 5 kilometers from Shushi.”

Recently, in the context of the mentioned and related to the former head of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs Onik Gasparyan, the rumors became active again, and he proposed to organize a closed meeting, that is, he is not ready to speak publicly about the actions stemming from Nikol Pashinyan’s order to take Shushi back, although the same authorities and Nikol Pashinyan have said a lot publicly, how logical is it to base everything on the principle of secrecy?

However, the former military leadership will have to answer many questions related to the 44-day war.

And before that, we talked about the Shushi operation carried out 34 years ago and the loss of the fortified city in the 44-day war with Tigran Abrahamyan, secretary of the NA “I have honor” faction, and Gegham Manukyan, deputy of the NA “Armenia” faction, where did we go wrong, why did we lose Shushi, did we really value it when it existed?

Tigran Abrahamyan in my opinion, Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that Artsakh was never ours actually conveys a lot of information about his “efforts” and priorities in the 44-day war.

“And this is not only related to Shushi, that is, there is one main responsible for the defeat in the war and the surrender of Artsakh: it is the current government and its leader Pashinyan. And charging Mikayel Arzumanyan and others and depriving them of their freedom has only one purpose: to shift the responsibility from themselves and to put it on others. As for the advice of the day, the Shushi operation that took place in May 1992, it is about the political will, struggle, aspirations and victory of the Armenian people. Armenian history, with its victorious pages, cannot be corrected by any authority or figure, and containing Pashinyan’s Azeri theses. The announcements, which serve exclusively the interests of the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem, aim to neutralize in a certain way the government’s surrender policy and its severe consequences.168.amhe said in a conversation with

And to what extent did the loss of Hadrut lead to the loss of Shushi, and when were the “foundations” laid for losing the fortress city during the 44-day war? Gegham Manukyan noticed.

“Actually, the loss of Shushi did not begin during his defense, but much earlier, when in 2018, Nikol Pashinyan decided to head the Artsakh Defense Army live in an unbalanced state, when the government had just taken over, attacks began against the military, the participants and heroes of the Artsakh Liberation War, criminal cases were initiated, when the content of the army began to be questioned at every step.

What’s more, when the morale of the army turned into a big party of eating and drinking only bananas and Coca-Cola in military canteens. As for why Shushi fell during the actual 44-day military operations, it needs a complex analysis.

The RA political leadership and the ruling circles completely failed the actions to put the country, the state on the war tracks from the very beginning of the war, and successive mistakes led to the defeat of the war. And the Armenian people missed the greatest Artsakh victory because of the apikars. And looking from the distance of years, today, on the day of Shushi’s liberation, the biggest wish is to ask for forgiveness…”.

168.amthe wrote that the “trial” of the former military-political leadership of Artsakh in Baku on the agenda there was also the successful Shushi operation carried out by the Armenian side in May 1992. In particular, during the “court” sessions, videos related to the Shushi operation were presented, where, for example, Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan tells about the liberation of Shushi or the capture from a military point of view.

In the Baku military court, other videos were also published, where it was mentioned that “the capture of Shushi was carried out in 4 directions, which were led by Samvel Babayan, Seyran Ohanyan, Valery Chitchyan and Arkadi Karapetyan”, and that “General Gurgen Dalibaltayan also played an important role in the offensive operation of Shushi”, referring to whose words, they also claimed in the Azerbaijani court that they were involved in the operation. former RA presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan had.

In other words, Azerbaijan tried to prove that the order to take Shushi was given by the military-political leadership of Armenia, so multi-faceted preparatory work was done.

Moreover, a video was put to study in the court of Baku, where the former president of RA Serzh Sargsyan talks about the importance of the Shushi operation, and where, in particular, according to the Azerbaijani media, Serzh Sargsyan says: “The significance of the Shushi operation was so great that Robert Kocharian also personally participated in it.”

And in the multi-part film about Shushi’s liberation, Serzh Sargsyan’s interview was also included, where he  tells. “In April 1992, a desperate situation was created, not to attack Shushi, not to capture Shushi, meant to sentence the population of Karabakh, and first of all, to Stepanakert, to a slow death, because at least 300-350 rockets were coming from Shushi to Stepanakert every day, it got to the point that an ordinary small-arms ball from Shushi was available to Stepanakert residents.”

Naturally, they did not talk about these and other reasons in the Baku court.

And now, when Nikol Pashinyan constantly repeats that Artsakh was never ours, it is, in fact, nothing more than the current leadership of Armenia accusing Armenia of being an “occupier”.

In other words, what they tried to prove during the “trial” against the former military-political leadership of Artsakh, which, as we have written many times, is against Armenia globally, not individuals, even if there are such episodes.

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