Gagik Ginosyan’s opinion about returning the corpses and remains of downed helicopter crewmembers
“Salvation of corpses at all times has been sacred for Armenians, at least for me. There was an unwritten rule in our division: you should not leave the corpse of any guy or a friend at the battlefield, because the Turk is not humane. They were naming their detachments gray wolves, and were the desecrating the corpses. We realized that we have to take the corpse of your deceased friend from the battlefield at you own risk to rescue from being desecrated. The operation performed a day before is the best example. Our guys, at the risk of their own lives, with a special operation, on the day of special detachment, and also unofficially, on the day of patriotism, on the B-Day of our squadron commander Leonid Azgaldyan, did this brilliant operation”, such an opinion was expressed by freedom fighter of “Liberation Army”, also member of the battalion of suicide attackers, Gagik Ginosyan, in the conversation with Aravot.am.
Note that thanks to special operations of Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces, the corpse of one of the Armenian helicopter crewmembers downed by Azerbaijan on the Karabakh-Azerbaijani Contact line, as well as the remains of the two pilots and some necessary parts of the helicopter were pulled out from the place of the accident. Note that the international structures were unable to reach any results about disclosure of the fate of the downed helicopter, even the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk was not allowed to visit the downing place of the helicopter. In this regard, the US State Department’s posture is also too passive.
Analyzing the attitude of the international organizations, the US and the Europe to the events, Gagik Ginosyan illustrated an example that when Ramil Safarov who killed Gurgen Margaryan was released, neither Europe nor the US made an equivalent step, and failed to perform any punitive action against Azerbaijan, or, in the events happened in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Serbia, or any other countries, Europe does not shine with its punitive actions. “And if the cases are in line with their interests, the US, NATO and others are not late with their punitive actions, and reach just in time. And when it comes to the Armenian matters, they seem to be trying not to encourage Armenians and act in favor of Armenians and protect them, but to tie a dead knot and keep back so that they do not give an adequate counterblow.”
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According to Ginosyan’s observation, the situation in these days showed that it is useless to rely on international organizations and the Europe, and we should only rely on our own strength. “Glory to the guys who performed this operation, and more glory that we were able to return the corpse of the pilot and other remains and parts from the helicopter to homeland without any victim and losses. Nzhdeh used to say, who are to be blamed for the genocide? The Turk, who exterminated? Germany that supported the Turks? The British that said that its ships would not climb up our mountains? The French that cheated and did not appear? The Russians who announced that they need Armenia with no Armenians? We are ready to seek for guilty, find in everyone but not us, we had so bad opinion about us. In this regard, I think that the role is changed, we have learned a lesson, and above all, we are guilty if we had not resolved this issue, and have waited for the Americans to declare something. Germans or Russians would solve their problems through us. No, we understood that we should solve them ourselves.”
Gagik Ginosyan said, it’s enough to wait for Europe, Europe and the world, in general, recon with the countries and nations that are able to solve the issue of their dignity independently, they stand up and fight for their dignity. “Both, the special operations and summer activities and the activities of our army proved that Armenia has irreversibly gained independence, Artsakh is also an Armenian land and the Armenian lands should be under the control of self-defense of Armenia. All the actions of the Armenian side prove that Azerbaijanis cannot digest the infringement of the Armenian lands.”
Nelly BABAYAN
