POLICE GENERAL PROMISES EXPOSE MYSTERY OF VOSKEPAR TRAGEDY

Noyan Tapan
Mar 15 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Events taken place in 1991 in Voskepar
are presented in publicist and poet Ignat Mamian’s “Cry of Wounded
Mountain” documentary book the presentation of which took place on
March 14 at the Writers Union of Armenia (WUA). This isn’t the first
time that the publicist touched upon the tragedy of Voskepar. I.Mamian
presented the heroic battle of the police duty detail boys died at the
Katarka mountain as well as the military-political picture created at
borders of Armenia, particularly in the Noyemberian-Ghazakh, in the
“Tragic Daylight” book as well.

According to WUA Chairman Levon Ananian, though 15 years passed
after the Voskepar events, it has still remained unknown by now how
and by which traitor the murder of the sons of Armenians fighting in
Voskepar was organized. “The heroic event is called the tragedy and
mystery of Voskepar. This history remains a completely not deciphered
one even today,” L.Ananian mentioned.

According to poet, translator Nerses Atabekian, I.Mamian has gathered
“the reality flying to bits in the crossroads of time” for 15 years and
made an attempt to present the heroic deed of the Armenian policemen
both in Artsakh and in bordering regions of the republic. According
to him, a movement started in 1980 which, it’s a pity, is spoken about
only now: this was the police detachment of special significance formed
in 1990. Hundreds of young people joined it. They participated both in
martial shift in the border regions of Armenia and in military actions
going on in Artsakh. According to N.Atabekian, the existence and work
of the police detachments also became an incitement for formation of
the RA National Army.

According to Major General Ararat Mahtesian, the RA Police Chief’s
First Deputy, in epilogue of the book the author presented a number
of questions which must get their answers. “I would attempt to find
answer for some “whys” for those are less in the author’s third book,”
he mentioned.