A video was shared on YouTube in which the former mayor of Hadrut, Vahan Savadyan, spoke about how Hadrut was actually handed over to Azerbaijan. He also asked the President of Artsakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, several questions.
“Perhaps Arayik Harutyunyan should say directly that his friends ran away. They left him there and they ran away. All his friends- fine, 90 percent. Including his friends from Hadrut. Why doesn’t he say, ‘My friends left me and escaped?’ Instead, he says, ‘The residents of Hadrut escaped, which is why Hadrut was captured.’ That is why the army exists. That is why we needed to prepare. No one should have stolen from the budget. We needed to create a strong army that would have been capable of defending Artsakh. That was where we needed to begin. All his friends escaped. People saw that they all escaped. Perhaps someone said, ‘My god, if they’re escaping, it means that this land has been sold,’ and that’s why everything happened the way it did? If people are escaping, that means the land was sold. Otherwise, why aren’t people staying behind to defend and govern it, or perhaps take part in evacuating the residents? They did not take part in it. Neither Kamo Aghajanyan nor Ivan Avanesyan and their close circles participated.
Arayik Harutyunyan should talk about this instead of saying that all the people of Hadrut escaped. Not all the people from Hadrut left. Sure, some percentage of them did. There were people who escaped. But there were also people who escaped from Stepanakert, Martakert, and Martuni. Otherwise, that’s it, Hadrut was handed over because the people escaped. What, are you trying to say that there aren’t any patriotic people among the Hadrut residents? There are many, very many.
We didn’t have electricity in Hadrut. On either the 6th or 7th, the press secretary of the president, Vahram Poghosyan, called me and said, “Vahan, Aliyev posted on Twitter that Hadrut fell. Can you organize an interview where you confirm that this isn’t true?” My god, instead of organizing and controlling the security of Hadrut, its residents, and the borders so that the security service could work from above if the situation deteriorated, they only care about populism. I went to organize an interview with my friend. There was no Internet for us to record it. We ended up getting trapped as the memorial was shelled. Since we didn’t have electricity or Internet, we went back. In the morning, Artsrun Hovhannisyan went there and took pictures to prove that Hadrut was ours. By the way, about Artsrun Hovhannisyan. They were giving him orders. It’s entirely possible that he didn’t make all that up himself. But every day, he said that the situation was normal, everything was fine, and we would soon win,” the former mayor of Hadrut said.
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Photo from Vahan Savadyan’s Facebook page
