Says participant in the second Artsakh war, Aram Mideyan
Participant in the 44-Day War in Artsakh, Aram Mideyan, was born in the Dvin village of the Ararat Province. After graduating from his village’s school, he studied at the Gevorkian Theological Seminary in Ejmiatsin in 2018-2019. He decided to leave his education and enlist in the army to serve in Hadrut. “When the war began, I was at the frontlines,” he began, feeling the memories, pain, and longing. “I cannot look to the past because the war is always with me and right before my eyes,” Aram said.
And it is that pain that is impossible to comfort because, as he said, the war was not only the loss of the majority of our homeland, but also our brothers and fathers, for whom the homeland was the most valuable. Realizing the idea of that value, Aram did his part, but he does not like to talk about the days of war. He does not make emotional statements. He said that our country is a sanctuary-homeland, and every handful of soil is soaked in the blood of our brothers.
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When asked where he would live outside the homeland, Aram directed his eyes to the sky, saying, “Outside the homeland- it would be in the homeland, in Hadrut, where I served.” The Hadrut region of Artsakh captivated him with its beauty, and the settlements of the endless forests are still before his eyes. After a pause, he began to think and painfully uttered the thought, “Until you lose it, you will not understand.” Aram was balanced and brave on the battlefield. Priest Yeghishe Nurijanyan also testified about that. The latter says that for days after the start of the war, he could not get any information about many of the boys. “Only bad news came from Hadrut, and there was no news from Aram,” he said, recalling the war. One day, the family learned that three people from Aram’s base had survived.
“One of them was Aram,” said the priest, continuing, “And at the end of October, when I had the opportunity to be in Artsakh, next to our brave ones, my thoughts were constantly on finding Aram somewhere. All my inquiries were meaningless. Suddenly, I got a call (I was in Chartar). He said, ‘Father, it is Mideyan.’ I was overjoyed. I was afraid the connection would be lost again. And at that moment I quickly asked where he was. Aram answered, ‘I have lost my battalion at the moment, I will be in Gishi for a while, in this section. I was there within ten minutes.” The priest proudly mentioned that he hears stories about Aram’s fight everywhere, how he destroyed one of the tanks, took his friends out of the clutches of death, and kept a cool head. Yes, there are many brave boys living next to us who fought for the idea, religion, identity, and freedom.
Vova Arzumanyan
