PHANTOM-GRAVE SELLER NABBED
By Alex Dobuzinskis, Staff Writer
Los Angeles Daily News, CA
March 13 2006
GLENDALE – A former Forest Lawn employee who sold phantom grave
plots to unsuspecting buyers has been charged with grand theft and
embezzlement in a scheme that cost the alleged victims more than
$67,000, authorities said.
Robert Ovsepyan, 34, of Burbank was extradited from Armenia over the
weekend and is being held without bail. Prosecutors filed charges
against him while he was on the lam abroad, alleging he ripped off
people in 10 fraudulent sales of nonexistent grave plots.
Armenian authorities agreed to extradite Ovsepyan because he is a
U.S. citizen and overstayed his visa in Armenia. He faces a maximum
of 35 years in prison if convicted of all the charges.
“It’s good for the victims. … They’re going to feel good, they’re
going to feel satisfied that justice prevailed,” Glendale police Sgt.
Ian Grimes said.
“But I think it sends a larger message to people in Glendale and people
in Armenia that you’re not going to be able to use one place to hide,
commit a crime in one place and hide in another.”
Starting in November 2004, Ovsepyan allegedly supplemented his income
from Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, where he sold grave plots for a living,
by selling nonexistent plots as well. All the victims who bought them
from him were Armenian-Americans he knew.
The buyers complained to Forest Lawn when they never received paperwork
for the sales, and Forest Lawn cooperated with police when they
suspected fraud. Ovsepyan stopped showing up for work in October 2005.
The buyers were different ages and included individuals and entire
families. Their losses ranged from $3,000 to $14,000.
One elderly woman had been saving two years to buy a plot for herself,
hoping to keep from burdening her children, police said.
In a prepared statement, Forest Lawn officials said they are
cooperating with the Glendale Police Department.
“We are working with the families to achieve a swift resolution and
are taking all necessary steps to protect against future wrongdoing,”
read the statement attributed to John Warren, the senior vice
president of marketing for Forest Lawn. “Forest Lawn maintains a
strict confidentiality policy and wishes to reserve comment at this
time to protect the privacy of the families we serve.”
Police are unsure how Ovsepyan decided who to engage in legitimate
sales and who to target for fraud.
“Some of them trusted him because of past association or relationship,”
financial crimes Detective Tigran Topadjhikyan said.
“One of the victims had a husband that was deceased, and Ovsepyan
was a friend of the husband’s. So it was the association that built …
the trust.”

2006 SPRING IS IMPORTANT MILESTONE IN RESOLUTION OF NK CONFLICT – AMB MANN
Author: R.Abdullayev
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
March 13 2006
2006 spring is an important milestone in the resolution of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Steven Mann, the US Department of State
Senior Advisor for Eurasia Steven Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair,
as stating in Baku to local television channel ATV.
“We think we will achieve considerable results in 2006,” Mann said.
During the two-day visit to Baku he is scheduled to have meetings
with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov.
The discussions will focus on the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. He is also scheduled to hold meetings with the
representatives of civil society and entrepreneurs.
Mann is accompanied by Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian
Affairs Daniel Fried will travel to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia,
and Turkey.
On March 14-15, Assistant Secretary Fried will meet with senior
Georgian, March 15-16, Assistant Secretary Fried will hold meetings
in Yerevan with senior government officials to discuss our bilateral
relationship, democracy, and Nagorno-Karabakh. On March 16, Assistant
Secretary Fried will depart for Ankara, Turkey, and will return to
the United States on Friday, March 17.

WHY GIVE PLATFORM TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIERS?
Daily Journal , Venezuela
icle.asp?ArticleId=230059&CategoryId=13303
Mar ch 13 2006
I am a devoted viewer of PBS. From “Masterpiece Theater” to “Sesame
Street,” I have always considered it a bastion of creative and
intelligent TV.
But two weeks ago, PBS stabbed me and every other Armenian-American in
the back when it announced that its upcoming documentary, “The Armenian
Genocide,” would be followed on some stations by a panel discussion
featuring two so-called scholars who claim that the genocide is a myth.
Worse, according to genocide historian Peter Balakian, PBS threatened
to pull the documentary if he and another genocide scholar declined
to participate “on the other side” in the panel discussion, which
was taped in January.
Although the documentary is not slated to run until April, programmers
across the country are now deciding whether to air it at all, air it
alone or air it with the taped debate. “We believe (the genocide)
is settled history,” said Jacoba Atlas, senior vice president of
programming at PBS, but “it seemed like a good idea to have a panel
and let people have their say.” This is perverse. Either there was
a genocide or there wasn’t.
Would anyone tolerate David Irving, the notorious Holocaust
revisionist, hashing it out on a panel with Elie Wiesel after a
documentary on the Nazi concentration camps? Should we give janjaweed
reps air time the next time we run a documentary on the genocide
in Darfur?
Why has PBS resorted to doublespeak in regard to the Armenian genocide?
The answer is simple: PBS is capitulating to politics. For years
the Turks, America’s so-called allies, have issued threats against
any organization or country that challenges their quack reading of
history. When the French recognized the Armenian genocide, the Turks
recalled their ambassador to France, boycotted French products and
canceled military contracts. They have threatened to withdraw strategic
support from our country if we should dare make the same mistake.
Article 301 of the Turkish penal code makes it a crime to “denigrate”
Turkey by, for instance, mentioning the Armenian genocide in public.
In March, the famous Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk did just that and
faced charges. International outcry and a technicality got his case
dismissed, but others are still in peril.
One of PBS’s genocide deniers, University of Louisville history
professor Justin McCarthy, was invited by the Turkish Grand Assembly –
reeling from European Union pressure to come clean about its genocidal
past – for a pep talk this month.
“I know that the Turks will resist demands to confess to a crime they
did not commit,” McCarthy intoned,”no matter the price of honesty. I
have faith in the integrity of the Turks.”
These rousing words brought the lawmakers, many of whom had sanctioned
Article 301, to their feet. Does PBS really want to give such a
belligerent falsifier air time?
“It seemed like a good idea,” Atlas said. Raphael Lemkin wouldn’t
agree. He coined the word “genocide” in 1944, and viewed the Armenian
case as a seminal example of such an atrocity. Norman Mailer, Carol
Gilligan, John Updike and Cornel West wouldn’t think so either.
They signed a petition, along with 150 other scholars and writers,
reaffirming the genocide’s historical truth. Directors of Holocaust
research centers around the world – including Wiesel and Yehuda Bauer
in 2000 – also signed a statement declaring the Armenian genocide an
incontestable historical fact.
Even the Turks are on the record as acknowledging the truth. When
Turkey was defeated in World War I, the allied powers created a
tribunal that included members of the new Turkish government.
The butchers behind the genocide had fled by then, but they were
found guilty and sentenced to death in absentia. Certainly the few
remaining genocide survivors, now in their 90s, would not think it
“a good idea” to give the deniers a forum.
They were children when hundreds of thousands of Armenians were herded
like cattle through the scorching slaughterhouse of the Anatolian
desert toward one of 25 concentration camps.
They watched as their people were murdered, raped, tortured and left
to starve in those camps.
Armenian homes and shops were occupied and looted; ancient churches
were turned into mosques or barns, used for target practice by
the Turkish army or burned to the ground to eliminate any trace of
Armenians in those lands.
By the time the Turks were finished, an estimated 1.5 million people
had perished – more than half the Armenian population in Turkey.
Armenians called it Medz Yeghern: “The Great Cataclysm.”
The denial of genocide, as many have rightly observed, is the
continuation of genocide.
It should be clear to PBS, to Atlas and to programmers across the
nation that the American public broadcasting system should not be
complicit in a murderous lie.
Aris Janigian is the author of the novel ‘Bloodvine.’
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

RINGSIDE BOXING REPORT: GIOVANNI LORENZO – ARCHAK TERMELIKSETIAN
By Jim Marra March 12th, 2006 All Ringside Boxing
SaddoBoxing.com
March 13 2006
Main Events put on a cracking five bout fightcard on Friday night at
Schuetzen Park in North Bergen, NJ headlined by an exciting matchup
of promising light middleweight prospects Giovanni Lorenzo vs. Archak
TerMeliksetian. The two engaged in a spirited slugfest that didn’t go
the distance but that was just part of the entertaining, well run
promotion by Main Events. There were some interesting undercard
contests as well, kicked off by a cruiserweight pairing between Cracow,
Poland’s Gregory Somzyski and Lloyd Wilson.
Things started off evenly but Wilson, of Winston-Salem, NC was in
survival mode by the end of the second round. Every time that Somzyski
got on the inside, Wilson clinched up. This led to Somzyski getting
the unanimous decision win in his professional debut, 40-36 and 39-37
(twice), much to the delight of the strong Polish crowd in the North
Bergen audience. Lloyd Wilson drops to 3-3 (3).
Next up was a light middleweight clash between Mariusz Cendrowski, of
Wroclaw, Poland and Miami’s Hicklet Lau. In this matchup, Cendrowski
showed some good speed and landed some clean power punches that only
seemed to stun the Cuban journeyman. The Pole was the more aggressive
fighter, while Lau seemed to hide behind his jab all night. At the
end of six rounds, Cendrowski got the victory on the scorecards 59-55,
58-56 and 58-57 to move to 11-0 (6) while Lau drops to 19-16-2 (9).
Super middleweights Wayne Johnsen and Clifton Roberson provided
ample fireworks as their contest became a very heated affair from the
start. Both fighters were trading powershots with each other in the
first round and the give and take battle continued on for the next
three rounds with the combatants even exchanging blows after the
bell of round four. By the fifth, Roberson, of Ripley, TN began to
tire and was quickly knocked down, through the ropes by Lyndhurst,
NJ’s Johnsen, and the hometown man’s fans began to go wild.
The less experienced visitor got up at the count of eight but never
fully recovered as Johnsen, sensing victory, quickly pounced on his
opponent, throwing a barrage of punches which were mostly unanswered
by Roberson. This led the referee to stop the bout at 2:15 of the
fifth. Wayne Johnsen improves to 11-1 (6) while Clifton Roberson
falls to 2-1-1(1).
The final undercard match was a heavyweight pairing that saw another
Polish import, undefeated prospect Mariusz Wach, square off against
veteran Earl Ladson of Winston-Salem, NC. After entering the ring,
Wach stood at an intimidating 6 feet 6 inches and towered over his
adversary. Much like the present heavyweight division, this fight
proved to be unimpressive for the first three rounds, but by the
fourth, Wach was able to wobble Ladson with some heavy right hands.
During the sixth and final round, Wach again went back to his right
hand and landed some huge shots. The determined Ladson, 12-9 (7),
was able to survive, but he lost the decision 60-54 on all cards
while Wach, 8-0 (2), celebrated with his Polish fans in the crowd.
It seemed that both the Polish and Wayne Johnsen fans left before the
headlining bout, only to be replaced by Dominican fans who appeared
to fill up Schuetzen Park to cheer on their fighter, light middle
Giovanni Lorenzo. While Lorenzo, born in the Dominican Republic but
now living in New York, entered the ring, his fans were stirred into
a frenzy, waving numerous flags of their native country. His opponent
Archak TerMeliksetian, of Los Angeles, didn’t look terribly impressed.
During the early rounds, both fighters exchanged numerous punches
with the two being equally successful at landing. Lorenzo and
TerMeliksetian also exchanged verbal jabs as well at the end of each
round. By the fourth, Lorenzo took to the offensive and landed his
punches effectively, while Archak began to counter with some success
as he found openings in Lorenzo’s defense.
Both fighters were warned on numerous occasions throughout the fourth
to stop hitting behind the head as the dislike between the two rivals
intensified. Lorenzo then put on a great boxing display in the fifth
by jabbing and finding his opponents range. The unbeaten twenty five
year old was scoring with two or three punch combinations and then
jabbing his way out. This sweet scientific display sent the Dominican
crowd nuts while chants of “Lo-Ren-Zo!” began to erupt throughout
Schuetzen Park.
By round six, Lorenzo was doing much of the same but was deducted
a point for hitting behind the head. This seemed to energize
TerMeliksetian a little as he ended the round strongly with a good
flurry of punches.
The seventh quickly turned into a slugfest between the two fighters and
saw Lorenzo catch Archak on the ropes, hammering the native Armenian
at will. Lorenzo seemed determined to make up for the point he lost
in round six. From the accumulation of punches TerMeliksetian took
in round seven, he did not answer the bell for the eighth and final
round. Giovanni Lorenzo moves to 20-0 (12) and secures a possible
future date with fellow undefeated prospect Sechew Powell.
Archak TerMeliksetian has now lost two bouts in a row and drops to 15-3
(12).

NEW CLUES ON ALLEGED MERCENARIES
Story By Nation Team
Daily Nation, Kenya
ntententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=68955
Marc h 13 2006
Two Mombasa businessmen might provide the key to unravel the mystery
behind the alleged mercenaries in the country.
Investigations point to possibilities that the two alleged mercenaries
pitched camp in Mombasa when they first came into the country.
Yesterday, our sister publication, the Sunday Nation, revealed that
the men Langata MP Raila Odinga claims are mercenaries working for
the Government are two Armenian “businessmen”.
Travel documents in our possession indicate the two men – aged 33 and
36 – arrived in the country early this year from Dubai, but have also
visited Kenya in the past on unknown missions.
The revelation comes amidst calls by a cross-section of leaders for
the Government to clarify whether there were foreign mercenaries in
the country, or not.
Yesterday, it emerged that when the alleged mercenaries arrived in
January to stay, they were granted a two-year category H permit,
which is for professionals or foreign investors.
They paid Sh60,000 each and posted a bond of a similar amount for
the permits.
Mr Odinga displayed faded photocopies of the passports of the two
foreigners on Friday, saying they were Armenians and not Russians as
earlier claimed.
The Nation sought to establish if the passport details could be
confirmed by the Interpol, but was informed that the global unit on
police operations didn’t have their particulars.
Local police have maintained they had not received such travel
documents and could not, therefore, establish the whereabouts of the
alleged mercenaries.
It is now emerging that on several occasions when they visited Kenya
in the past from their base in Dubai, they were indeed doing business
with the Mombasa businessmen.
They were initially involved in sugar importation, among other
ventures with one of the businessmen before they fell out for what
sources say were unclear circumstances.
It is while they were working with the businessmen that they were
introduced to powerful people in the country, who made it possible
for them to go about their businesses without any hindrance.
Such contacts would later become useful when they fell out with one
of the businessmen.
We have further established that the lower part of a gate to the
house where the alleged mercenaries were staying in Runda and which
provided space through which the Nation took pictures of the house
has been sealed completely.
Except for a gardener who rarely gets out of the compound, the place
is now completely deserted.
At the same time, Nairobi Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a’
Nzeki called for immediate investigations into claims that foreign
mercenaries were operating in the country.
He said the claims were serious and Kenyans were entitled to an
explanation.
“That is a very serious accusation. Let the Government come out clear
on this,” he said.
The Archbishop added that it was important for the Government to
tell the people how the alleged mercenaries came into the country,
as well as who brought them here.
Addressing journalists at the Holy Family Basilica where he led special
prayers for the country and its leadership, Archbishop Ndingi said
the Government owed Kenyans an explanation on whether the claims were
true or not true.
He further called on Mr Odinga to provide all the information he has
on the case to enable the police to conduct investigations.
As the archbishop spoke, Mr Odinga made fresh claims that the alleged
mercenaries had spent a night at a Nairobi residence of a prominent
personality, who has high connections in Government. They then moved
to a camp for one of the uniformed forces.
Without elaborating, Mr Odinga said the gang looked for the alternative
site after he disclosed their hideouts and revealed their identity
to the police.
“The mercenaries were moved to a house belonging to a prominent Narc
personality after I disclosed their hideout and gave their identity
to the police,” he said.
They were now being guarded by the dreaded General Service Unit,
making it difficult for them to be investigated.
He said the first assignment for the hit squad was to raid the
Standard and KTN offices and were now being prepared to eliminate
ODM luminaries.
However, Mr Odinga warned that such attempts were bound to fail
because Kenyans were watching keenly the events unfolding the country.
“I don’t fear these people because we know the Government is desperate
after failing to live up to the expectations its leaders promised
Kenyans in the last General Election,” he said.
And former Environment minister and one of the ODM’s leading lights,
Mr Kalonzo Musyoka said the security of Kenyans was paramount and asked
the Government to “thoroughly” investigate the claims by Mr Raila.
“We can’t take such allegations lightly. It is now the duty of the
Government to get on top of things and dispel public anxiety,” he said.
Mr Odinga warned President Kibaki that his days were numbered because
he was defending corrupt individuals in his Government.
He faulted the President for turning a deaf ear on the wishes of
Kenyans to sack corrupt ministers who had defied the law.
“It was wrong for President Kibaki to openly declare that Michuki
was there to stay even after he publicly defied the law and raided
private property,” he said.
Mr Odinga made the new claims at various stops on his way to the
burial of his cousin, Jennifer Akinyi Matara, at Ogango village in
Nyamira District.
At the funeral Mr Odinga accused the Government of practising
tribalism.
He cited the recent sacking of Dr Patrick Orege, Naftali Mogere,
Prof Ratemo Michieka, Jasper Oduor, James Ongwae and Zachary Ogongo,
among others, who were all from Nyanza.
Mr Mogere, who had been sacked as the managing trustee of the National
Social Security Fund, was last week appointed the managing director
of the National Cereals and Produce Board.
Mr Odinga said Kenyans were keenly monitoring how the Government
was selectively tackling corruption in the country, saying unless
it handled the matter as required, the voters would hit back at the
polls next year.

REPORTERS FINALLY ALLOWED INTO POSH HOUSE
Daily Nation , Kenya
March 14 2006
Journalists were finally let into the posh house in an upmarket
Nairobi estate which Langata MP said was hosting mercenaries.
After holding a press conference at the Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport (JKIA) and denying they were mercenaries two Armenian
brothers – Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargsyan – allowed reporters
into the house in Runda estate where Langata MP Raila Odinga claimed
mercenaries were living.
One of the brothers, Mr Artur Margaryan, took journalists on a tour
of the expensively furnished house and fielded questions as he walked
them out of the compound.
A gap below the gate from which the Press had taken pictures last
week was sealed.
Except for a gardener and a meek black dog that was not chained and
which did not bark, the place was deserted.
Mr Margaryan was driven into the compound in a red Mitsubishi saloon
by a woman of Caucasian descent whom he said was his bodyguard, some
minutes before 2pm. He was expensively dressed and had gold chains
and rings.
He requested journalists not to take pictures of the car for security
reasons. The same message had been communicated to the journalists by a
man who introduced himself as his lawyer. He declined to give his name.
Last Thursday, the red car trailed the Nation team throughout the
time we were at the estate following the story.
On entering the house, the first thing that attracts one’s eyes is
a big coloured portrait drawing of the woman introduced as a bodyguard.
The sitting room was expensively furnished with leather sofa sets
and a single coffee table with an ash tray.
Electronic goods unpacked – including refrigerators, several
flat-screen TVs and disks – were scattered on the ground floor of
the house giving the impression that the occupants had just moved
into the house.
The kitchen was well stocked with maize flour, vegetables, and
soft drinks.
Mr Margaryan said the food was for the gardener, whom he pays Sh
20,000 a month.
When reporters entered the compound it was Mr Margaryan who opened
the door to the main house with keys from his pockets. The gardener
only opened the gate.
He insisted that he and his brother, with whom he addressed a press
conference at the airport, were “clean businessmen” who came into
the country through the Democratic Republic of Congo last year.
He says they liked the country and its people which prompted them to
set up businesses here.
Asked what kind of business they were engaged in, Mr Margaryan said
they were into real estate and importation of cars and electronics.
He admitted he was Armenian and together with his brother had served
in the military as it was mandatory for everybody to serve on attaining
18 years of age.
Mr Margaryan said his brother travels to Armenia from his base in
Dubai frequently as he was interested in the presidential seat held
by his uncle.
The Armenian claimed he had been in the Runda house for the past five
days and was negotiating to buy it.
It is at this point that the landlord asked him to clear his name
first before they could negotiate further.
He further repeated claims he gave Mr Odinga a US$1.5 million loan
(just over Sh100 million) in cash at a Nairobi hotel.
Asked whether there was any agreement on the terms of payments,
Mr Margaryan said it was not the first time he had given such huge
amounts of money without such a contract.
Contacted later, a lawyer for the landlord said the man had only
negotiated lease of the house and not its sale.
He said it was Mr Margaryan who signed the lease at an estate agency.
The lease is drawn between the landlord and Brotherlink International.

GARABAGH MEDIATORS TO MEET IN ISTANBUL MARCH 20
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
March 13 2006
Baku, March 10, AssA-Irada
The OSCE mediators brokering settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan
conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh are due to hold their next
meeting in Istanbul on March 20. The schedule of the Minsk Group
co-chairs’ visit to the region will depend on the positions and
readiness of the conflicting sides, says a joint statement of
the intermediaries who have completed their three-day meeting in
Washington.
“We call on the Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities to make efforts
to prepare their people not for war, but peace. We urge both sides to
be guided by the developed principles in order to settle the conflict
in 2006.”
The mediators said that despite the unsuccessful outcome of the latest
round of presidential talks in France, they continue to believe that a
number of pre-conditions are fostering a conducive basis to solve the
long-standing dispute this year, Radio Liberty quoted the mediators
as saying.
The discussions held by the two leaders in the French town of
Rambouillet in February turned out fruitless, as the parties failed
to iron out issues of principle, which was followed by mutual threats.
The next meeting of the Azeri and Armenian presidents may take place
during a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States leaders in
Minsk in September, according to the head of the President’s Office
international relations department, Novruz Mammadov.

US ENVOY WARNS OF GARABAGH CONFLICT THREAT
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
posted on March 13 2006
Baku, March 10, AssA-Irada
The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh is
“real and dangerous”, the US ambassador in Baku Reno Harnish has said.
Harnish said the two countries’ leaders and the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs brokering settlement to the dispute should be active to
achieve a resolution.
“The recent ceasefire violations show that this is not a frozen,
but a real and dangerous conflict. I believe the presidents, foreign
ministers as well as the MG co-chairs should take courageous steps
to find a peaceful solution to the problem,” the diplomat added.

GARABAGH HIGH ON US OFFICIAL’S VISIT AGENDA
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
posted on March 13 2006
Baku, March 10, AssA-Irada
The Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict is expected to
be high on the agenda of the visit to Azerbaijan by the US Department
of State Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel
Fried, who will visit Baku next week. Also to be discussed during the
visit are the results of the latest consultations of the mediating
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen held in Washington.
“The co-chairs decided after the latest meeting that they should meet
and review the results of the discussion. As you know, the situation is
quite complicated and requires frequent coordination,” Deputy Foreign
Minister and the Azerbaijani President’s Upper Garabagh negotiator,
Araz Azimov, has said. He said it was natural for the co-chairmen
not to have disclosed any information to the press.
“You never know how information will be interpreted and what course
events will take. I think the co-chairmen’s steps are justifiable.
They want to consult the parties to the conflict after the Washington
meeting,” Azimov added.

ARMENIA BLAMES CEASEFIRE BREACHES ON TOUGH AZERI RHETORIC
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
posted on March 13 2006
Baku, March 10, AssA-Irada
Armenia blames the recent violations of ceasefire on the frontline
on Azeri officials’ tough statements, which included warnings that
the country may resort to military action to solve over a decade-long
dispute over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh.
Armenian deputy defense minister Artur Agabekian maintained that the
national army soldiers being inspired by President Ilham Aliyev’s
statements have been allegedly subjecting Armenians to intense
shooting.
“The reasons for ceasefire breaches by Azeri military men is official
Baku’s statements,” he said, claiming that this disrupts the “relative
stability” observed before.
The Armenian official recalled that since a ceasefire was reached in1
1994, it has been repeatedly infringed upon on the frontline and this
mainly happens when the sides “alter their positions”.
Agabekian said the sides [troops] “have drawn closer to each other”
in the past years, and as a result, any mistake leads to human
casualties. He also noted that the war has claimed lives.
“Every Armenian soldier knows that he should always be prepared for
military action,” Agabekian added.