The Prime Minister’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, announced that we had 11,000 deserters during the war the other day. Meanwhile, according to the data provided to 168. am by the prosecutor’s office, 214 criminal cases have been initiated on the grounds of war desertion, in which 59 servicemen were involved as defendants. In other words, widespread desertion was not recorded, so where did Anna Hakobyan get those 11,000? “Maybe those things have yet to reach the domain of the prosecutor’s office, or they are somewhere else, but nevertheless, it is clear that more than 10,000 such cases have been registered by the relevant authorities. More than 10,000, yes, it was recorded, and a lot was said about this: during the war, there was an apparent campaign of defeatism; a campaign was made to lower the morale and psychological state of the soldiers, to depress them. In particular, different people walked around different positions; they told the soldiers: “It’s sold, it’s a meat grinder, what’s your business, run away, get saved, and other similar things,” and the corresponding chain of actions followed.
We checked: is it the same “5th column”? Aleksanyan answered. “At least a part of it happened due to the direct influence of the 5th column, and the other part was increased by the influence of those who were already under that influence, thus, with a snowball effect. But it is definite, no matter how much we run away from this fact, we have to face that such cases happen. And we should also work towards that morale-psychological state to restrain all those who try to harm that morale-psychological state. To the question, you said that more than 10,000 cases of deserters were recorded, so there are names behind them; why is that list not published, name by name? The public has the right to know our country’s deserters. Besides, what is the number of deserters? To be clarified when the authorities are constantly criticized that the names of the victims of the 44-day war have not been published with a complete list, Vahagn Aleksanyan answered. “Whoever accuses is obviously distorting the facts; everyone’s names are published; what is not published? In other words, do you want one common file in everyone’s names to be published? I can’t say anything about the list of deserters, but until there are relevant court rulings on those cases, I don’t think publishing names is right because you understand very well what it can lead to.”
In other words, names cannot be published because there is no verdict, but it is acceptable to make a verdict in relation to those 11 thousand, to release a deserter, and to post about it, and in this case, what it may lead to is not essential.
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Vahagn Aleksanyan responded to the observation that in this regard, they are criticizing that the authorities are playing “passes” with Aliyev, so to speak because the number of 11,000 deserters came from Aliyev’s lips. Suddenly the wife of our prime minister is saying it. “Those who say they play with Aliyev with passes are Aliyev’s personal passer and the ball supplier. Very often, they are Aliyev’s balls that Aliyev kicks and throws into our field. And what about that number? If you want to run away from reality, let’s run away. More than 10 thousand reais. Now, do those people know where those deserters were kept? Does no one know that several thousand were kept in the fortress in this country? Does no one know those numbers?” When we responded, you should publish so that we know, he replied. “Honestly, our society knows very well in reality. No matter how tempting these speculations are, the person in Artsakh in those days knows very well how many thousands of people were in which fortress, what happened, and how it happened. People know all that very well. And the motive of creating a parallel false reality, which the opposition often tries, is usually doomed to failure.”
We checked; more than two years have passed since the war, and these deserters have been kept in the fortress for so long without a trial or verdict, he answered. “No, it’s about the course of action itself. During the military operations, deserters were kept in specific places.” Vahagn Aleksanyan responded to the question: where are they now? “As far as I know, there are criminal cases related to a huge part; there are not yet related to a part, maybe they are in progress, but you understand that the volume is too large.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
