“I see Shushi’s combat operations in the context of various combat operations during the defensive operation in the 44-day war. Because Shushi’s operation didn’t just happen, Shushi’s downfall didn’t happen just like that.
The path of Shushi’s fall is in the context of the combat operations of the various rings: Horadiz, Fizuli, Jrakan, Hadrut, the Karmir Shuka subregion, and the upper Askeran subregion. The Azerbaijanis did not appear in Shushi just like that. In that sense, there is a problem of general responsibility in the Republic of Armenia.
The Armenian authorities are trying to place the responsibility on the lower tactical level, including the military commanders. If Mikayel Arzumanyan had been properly notified, he would have calmed down, but no, they decided to do it within the framework of a theatrical mask show,” said former Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan to Aravot.am, referring to the August 30 arrest of ex-military commander Mikael Arzumanyan.
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According to Seyran Ohanyan’s observation, “It is done in the framework of distracting and misleading our society and being accountable to their constructive friends, with whom Nikol Pashinyan is meeting today in Brussels. Because Mikayel Arzumanyan, whom I dealt with throughout my service and in the 1st Artsakh Liberation War, has shown himself as a skilled commander, a brave commander in all command positions. He himself was appointed to the position of the head of the Defense Army.
He was in charge in the last period, for 10-12 days, when it could be said that the matter was over. Answers to the following questions are important to me: who is responsible for the fact that he failed the entire negotiation process regarding Artsakh, destroyed the entire negotiation potential, said in loud words: Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it, and today he washed his hands of Artsakh and says: Artsakh is Azerbaijan, and that’s it.
Who is responsible for instigating the war during the July 2020 operations? Who is responsible for dragging the country into hostilities, failing to implement measures to prepare for the initial phase of the war in the initial period of the war?
Who is responsible for not putting the country on the military track during the war and directing all its potential to support the army? Who is responsible for not mobilizing human resources to restore and replenish the army’s sanitary and other losses?
Who is the responsible person who should have correctly guessed and decided the direction of the enemy’s main attack in the Security Council, the government, and directed all the potential of the state and local government, all the construction and engineering capabilities to stop the enemy, to form a deep defense?
What are all the legal spheres, the bodies, which are independent and impartial, which did not touch those illegalities in the war, to stop that barrage in the theater of combat operations, to establish order?
Who are those responsible who, seeing these failures and retreats, on the contrary, encouraged them with general titles, awarded hero titles with various medals?
Who are those responsible who did nothing after stopping the war and the barrage continued within the borders of Armenia, failed to determine the strategically important points, the heights, did nothing to quickly occupy geographical positions so that the enemy does not come and get involved in all of this. Who are the responsible people who make decisions today, detached from reality, without thinking about safety?
For a year, we have been initiating various measures related to security, foreign policy, Artsakh, Armenian-Azerbaijani, Armenian-Turkish relations, but today’s authorities and the political majority in the National Assembly fail them.
Who are the ones responsible for leading the country to a false peace agenda, deciding to break the spirit of our struggle, leading them under false Turkish-Azerbaijani trickery? For me, for our people, the current authorities of Armenia, led by Nikol Pashinyan, are responsible for all this. Whether Nikol wants it or not, he is responsible for all this and he will answer. The rest, the arrest of Arzumanyan, such staged messages are within the framework of reporting to their constructive friends, Aliyev.”
Arpine Simonyan
P.S. The term of arrest of Mikayel Arzumanyan, the former Commander of the Defense Army, the former Minister of Defense of Artsakh, the chief adviser to the President of Artsakh, expired, and he was released. A motion to detain Arzumanyan was submitted to the court. The issue of his restraining order will be examined at the Ajapnyak office.
