Davit Babayan confirms that the Azerbaijani “victims” have been sent to work

From the very beginning of the Baku “trial” with fabricated accusations against the former military-political leadership of Artsakh, we have warned that it is not actually against individuals, but against the Republic of Armenia, the Armed Forces of Armenia, and the Armenian people.

And this claim was strengthened at every “judicial” session, when the military actions carried out by the Armenian side during the first Artsakh war became the subject of investigation. operations and episodes when was referred to Punitive response of the Armenian side to the April four days of 2016 and the July battles of 2020, under the former authorities of the Republic of Armenia actions, when the accusatory arrow in the context of the 44-day war was correcting The former military leadership of RA was guilty of the “Ganja incidents”. in order The 44-day military leadership, names of military personnel were published, even: made public The secret orders of the former chiefs of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, because after 44 days the archive of the Defense Ministry was not removed from Artsakh.

In our articles related to the “trial” in Baku, we wrote that Aliyev was sent to the court “victims” who testified against the former military-political leadership of Artsakh, the former presidents of the Republic of Armenia and the military leadership of the 44-day period, i.e. the Republic of Armenia and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, trying to prove that Armenia “stepped out” of the laws of war and “targeted” the civilian population, and during the first war, Azerbaijani prisoners were also “subjected to violence and exploitation”.

And today the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Davit Babayan sent him from Baku prison in the message confirmed all our claims, and a few days before that it was also confirmed by the former chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Davit Ishkhanyan.

In addition to this, they also spoke about the fact that the court in Baku did not allow them to finish what they had to say in court, moreover, there were cases when they were not allowed to intervene during the testimony of the sent “victims”. such a case was In the case of the former commander of the Armed Forces, General Levon Mnatsakanyan.

We still do not mention the fact that the Baku propaganda machine did not publicize the unfavorable questions and speeches of the former military and political leadership of Artsakh, or did it in a distorted, out of context manner, such cases were related to General Davit Manukyan and Davit Babayan.

In particular, during one of the “court” sessions, when the Azerbaijani military operations against Artsakh on September 19-20, 2023, which led to the complete depopulation of Artsakh, were discussed, the Azerbaijani citizen Ragif Aliyev testified that he was injured as a result of the targeting of his car during the “anti-terrorist” operation on September 20, 2023, and that the “remnants” of the RA Armed Forces There were also other wounded and killed by mortar fire.

In this context, the Azerbaijani propaganda machine reported that in response to General Davit Manukyan’s question, the “victim” stated that “the goal of the opposing side was the destruction of Azerbaijanis, he knows no other goals.”

What questions or observations General Manukyan made could only be assumed, because the Azerbaijani side did not make the general’s speech public.

The “victim” Jeihun Aliyev claimed in his testimony that he was injured in the area of ​​Chankatagh village during the days of “anti-terrorist” operations, when they tried to prevent the “sabotage carried out” by the “remnants” of the RA Armed Forces.

“They were carrying out various “provocations”, shooting at our positions and the civilian population,” the “victim” continued.

Here, the former commander of the Armed Forces, General Levon Mnatsakanyan, as it appeared from the information provided by Azerbaijani sources, tried to intervene, which was prevented by the Baku court.

Another case. During another “judicial” session in Baku, the “victim” Amin Musaev was remarkable was a testimony gave that he was “wounded by a firearm on November 8, 2020, in the Shushi-Stepanakert section, and captured on November 11”, later moved to Yerevan, and returned to Azerbaijan on December 14.

Note that on June 20, 2023 Nikol Pashinyan in the NA investigation commission investigating the circumstances of the 44-day war in speech had a key role Shushi’s fall theme.

“On the afternoon of November 7, the Head of the Military Police Onik Gasparyan reported to me about the fall of Shushi. Upon hearing the news of Shushi’s downfall, my first reaction was to demand, do what you promised. I mean, keep Shush. Hold the bottle, take it back. Eventually I was told about the countermeasures, then some success, then the operation was going well, then we were inside Shushi. Before the signing of the tripartite declaration, I was informed that part of Shushi was under the control of the Defense Army. Then there was the signing of the tripartite statement, then the attack on the government building on the night of November 10, and when I returned to full-time work in a day or two, they told me that we don’t have any soldiers in Shushi,” Pashinyan said.

And after the war, the former president of Artsakh, Araik Harutyunyan, who was in Baku, said: “On November 7, we completely lost control over the city of Shushi. The battles were going on in the Stepanakert suburbs. If it continued at that rate, within days we would have lost all of Artsakh, we would have had many more victims.”

In turn, in January 2024 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in an interview with local TV channels had informed. “On November 8, I could not say how the war would end.”

In other words, there are some overlaps in the testimony of the Azerbaijani “victim” and the official statements presented, on the other hand, it turns out that Nikol Pashinyan was lying, saying: “On the night of November 9-10, there was an attack on the government building, and when I returned to full-time work a day or two later, I was told that we had no soldiers in Shushi.”

Anyway, after listening to the testimony of the “victim” Amin Musaev during the “court” session, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Artsakh, Davit Babayan, asked him why “his fighting comrades did not evacuate him during the period between November 8-11”.

“My comrades in arms were killed, and I lost consciousness when I was injured. And then, during the war, it is not possible to evacuate either the victims or the wounded at once,” answered the Azerbaijani “victim”.

Of course, this Azerbaijani reaction raises some questions, and there are still unanswered questions regarding the fall of Shushi, as well as their arrival at Stepanakert.

And today, in his message from Baku, Davit Babayan said that the sent “victims” confused him with different people, including Vitaly Balasanyan, during their testimony, which is another proof that Aliyev uses his citizens to create a false legal base against Armenia or the Armenian side, while Armenia does not use clear facts to prove Baku’s war crimes.

There was another remarkable episode in Davit Babayan’s message.

“During a preliminary investigation, they brought and showed the picture of NKR National Assembly deputy Davit Galstyan, they said that this is a well-known mafioso, he was selling weapons. I said, that person has nothing to do with it, then it turned out that this is another Davit Galstyan, the person called “Boss Davo”. But the problem is that 73 people have already testified against that deputy and personally, as if they saw him. When I told them, they got mixed up, left, came back after about two hours, said, “We have changed, you will say that you saved Davit Galstyan’s life,” explains Babayan.

It is a bit strange that Nikol Pashinyan, the main weapons supplier to the army, has a visual “from declassification» then, moreover, on June 18, 2021 in Baku, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan International to declare wantedfrom later, the Azerbaijani investigative bodies might not recognize him by face, but know his biography well. Maybe something like this is possible? And what assumption can be made from Davit Babayan’s speech, maybe it should also be perceived as a warning, especially when there is no confirmation that he left Aliyev’s agenda, who accused him of “illegally acquiring weapons from Russian military factories and sending them to Armenia by civilian planes”.

Moreover, 2022 wrote an extensive article on this topic in June caliber.az– referring also to the activities of Davit Galstyan, who deals in arms trade.

The Azerbaijani website did not ignore the information that there was military-technical cooperation between Armenia and Bulgaria in 2018, and Armenia bought weapons from this country, including heavy ones. In the article, the Azerbaijani side, in fact, set an ultimatum: Bulgaria should either choose to make money by supplying arms to Armenia, or choose Azerbaijani gas.

In this context, we should note that during the 44-day war in 2020 and after that, it was regularly circulated in this context that 2020 On September 27, the first day of the 44-day war, at that time the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Davit Tonoyan was not in Armenia, and that he participated in the birthday ceremony of Davit Galstyan (Patron Davit), the arms supplier to the army in a foreign country.

In 2023, the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Davit Tonoyan, referring to these conversations in the Investigative Commission, had informed. “On the evening of September 25-26, I was in an EU and NATO member country again within the framework of a business trip for the purpose of organizing the supply of weapons and military equipment.” Although Davit Tonoyan did not mention the name of that country, it was, in fact, Bulgaria.

Against the backdrop of Azerbaijani targeting, Nikol Pashinyan pushed Davit Galstyan back from the army, and until now continues the case of “junk missiles”, which Galstyan, who is also an arms dealer, is involved in, and before that he has been acquitted in the case of “shells”.

However, we should not forget that the topic of arms purchases is also touched upon in the report of the 44-day investigative commission. As for the current defense minister, Pashinyan’s teammate Suren Papikyan, on one occasion we wrote that in this respect he is more than at risk. But this is a separate topic for discussion.

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