“Only the last defeat showed that no one should be blamed. Our apathy is the reason. The same thing happened in 1921. I tell you with confidence that in 1921 Artsakh could join Armenia if the Armenian Bolsheviks were consistent. These are facts,” said Avetik Ishkhanyan, the chair of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, during a hearing on November 19 on “The Surrender of Artsakh and Syunik is the Destruction of Armenia” organized by the “In Defense of the Republic of Artsakh” committee, adding that the Armenian Bolsheviks, unlike the Russian Bolsheviks, considered it to be a common state, and nothing was done.
Avetik Ishkhanyan, the chair of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia
According to Avetik Ishkhanyan, the war started in 2018 when the foundations for defeat were laid with a consistent anti-Russian policy, at least on paper making our ally an enemy and giving Azerbaijan a basis for attack, followed by the incompetent government, which was the direct path to defeat. According to the speaker, the resistance movement in Armenia was supposed to be formed on November 10, 2020, but it did not happen due to the division of the party field, and later a party movement was created where each party had its own thread. In any case, he thinks that at least a general movement should be created today because the situation is fatal and if we lose Syunik, we lose everything. “There is quite reliable information that a document on the corridor has even been signed.”
Nelly GRIGORYAN
