When war broke out on September 27th, the Dallakyan family’s oldest son, Karen Dallakyan, who served in Fizuli for 17 years as a junior sergeant, quickly went to the frontlines.
On the morning of October 13th, Karen called his brother, Karmen Dallakyan, and said that they are going toward the village. A few hours after the conversation, Karmen was told that his brother died with his fellow soldiers on the way to Fizuli. However, when an investigation was carried out after the war was over, it became clear that Dallakyan’s body was missing.
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It has been three months and the family has not received any specific news about their son.
“In the beginning, they said that he died, and then when parts of someone’s body were discovered, medical examinations showed that none of those bodies were my brother’s. And now it has been three months, and we have not received any specific news. On one hand, they tell us that he died, then they say that they can’t find him, and now we don’t know what to believe and what news we should come to terms with. Until now, we have no specific information about my brother. We don’t know if he died, if he’s being held captive, or if he’s hiding somewhere,” Karmen Dallakyan said.
The family lived their entire lives in the Azokh village of Hadrut.
The two brothers’ families lived with each other and they established everything together.
Karmen Dallakyan, who has a one-year-old son, has been caring for his brother’s three sons after his brother’s disappearance.
The family is currently living in Dilijan. The nine members of the family are currently renting. They are having difficulty speaking about the future. They say that they cannot decide how and where they will continue their lives since there is no specific information about Karen.
“If they returned our village to us, we would go live there even if it was in ruins. We would renovate it and live there. But if we can’t have our house, it doesn’t matter to us where we will live- here or somewhere else,” Karmen said.
Satenik Hovsepyan
