WE COULD HAVE TAKEN NAKHIDJEVAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
Published: 14:37:18 – 11/07/2012
Statesman and politician Khachik Stamboltsyan posted a video of
himself, disclosing a story dating back to 1991.
“Following the start of the movement for Karabakh, February 26,
Silva Kaputikyan [writer], and Zori Balayan [journalist] returned
from Moscow after a meeting with Gorbachov and urged people to stop
the rallies because the leadership in Moscow promised to resolve the
issue,” he says.
They deceived people, and people stopped the demonstrations, and the
tragedy of Sumgait and Baku followed, says Khachik Stamboltsyan.
According to him, a lot of Armenian women married to Azerbaijanis were
abandoned and turned out of their homes by their Azerbaijani families.
He says in the passports of those women their nationality was
Azerbaijani, and their patronymic and family names were transcribed
in an Azerbaijani manner, such as Hovsep – Yusuf.
Khachik Stamboltsyan says he hired these women, as well as Russian
journalists, these women acted as guides to those journalists to visit
Azerbaijan via Georgia, allegedly for interviews, they also visited
Nakhidjevan. I told them what questions to ask and what information
to collect about Nakhidjevan.
Mr. Stamboltsyan says his representatives also met with a mullah who
gave them some more information once or twice a year.
“We learned that Azerbaijanis who left Armenia for Azerbaijan after
Baku and speak Armenian are trained in Nakhidjevan to send to Armenia
for subversive acts. They also informed that all the rich residents
of Nakhidgevan moved to Baku and lived in Ermanikend, the neighborhood
where the displaced Armenians used to live.”
Only the middle and poor class was left in Nakhidjevan who also
wanted to leave because they expected retaliation for the massacres
of Baku by the Armenians, and Nakhidjevan’s isolation from the rest
of Azerbaijan would facilitate such intentions. The railway was
operational but they were afraid to use it because they would have
to pass across Meghri, Armenia.
As soon as I learned about this, I telephoned Levon Ter-Petrosyan
and told him that less than 70,000 people are left there, and I had
recordings to prove. He told me to talk to the prime minister. When
I shared this information with Vazgen Manukyan, he said he had set
up a security council led by Ashot Manucharyan, including Simonyants
and Gyurjyan. The latter was a national security officer. He asked
me to hand those recordings to them.
I met Gyurjyan, he admired the huge work done by me, and they left
with the recordings. In the evening he contacted the head of the
railways to send empty cargo cars to Russia via Nakhidjevan and Baku
to transport people of Nakhidjevan to Baku on the way to Russia.
In the meantime, they had dismantled the barbed wire fence on the
Turkey-Armenia border, and the Russian tanks were deployed in Artashat,
Armenia, they also wanted to intervene, and our actions were in line
with the Russian army action.
Manucharyan, Gyurjyan, Simonyants knew everything but did not tell
me in the beginning. As far as I understood, they had not informed
Ghandilyan. According to the plan, they allowed the local people to
get on the cargo cars. On the way to Meghri, near Ordubad, the cars
were suddenly shelled from Meghri. The drivers knew the initial plan
and thought it was a misunderstanding and did not stop. In Meghri the
detachments of Yerkrapah volunteers stopped the trains and welded
the wheels to the tracks to prevent their movement. Turks got off
the cars and run back to Ordubad on foot.
I cannot understand why this plan was thwarted as we could take
Nakhidjevan without shooting a single bullet and victims. Later I
learned that Ashot Manucharyan had ordered the local detachment of
volunteers to stop the trains.
This is treason because we could have taken Nakhidjevan without
victims, Stamboltsyan says, noting that he has reported.
In conclusion, he says a number of people died in identical
circumstances, went to sleep and did not wake up. He refers to Ashot
Navasardyan, ex-leader of the RPA, Zatikyan, Badalyan, the ex-leader
of communists, as well as Ghevond, the head of the detachment of Meghri
which prevented the movement of trains, and this case was covered up.
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