Armenian Army is 15: Meruzhan Margaryan

ArmRadio.am
27.01.2007 14:37

On January 28 Armenia will celebrate the 15th anniversary of formation
of the Armenian Army.

When the national liberation war started, Meruzhan Margaryan was one
of the first to get involved in the struggle without any hesitation.

During the Armenian Genocide Meruzhan Margaryan’s father, Grigor, had
hardly escaped from Mkten village and settled in Ashnak village of
Talin, where Meruzhan was born in 1942. He was the youngest of the six
children. After leaving school he was drafted to Army. After
demobilization he graduated from the Yerevan Institute of Physical
Culture and started working at the Institute of Agriculture. Later in
Moscow he defended his dissertation. After returning from Moscow he
was appointed Deputy Head of the Chair of Physical Culture of the
Agriculture Institute. `Then came the year 1988, the start of national
revival,’ says Meruzhan Margaryan’s wife, Eleonora Kocharyan.

In 1989 together with Abik Samvelyan Meruzhan Margaryan created a
charity union in the Agriculture Institute. Here he was compiling
divisions comprised of students and sending to Artsakh.

In Hadrut region they participated in self-defense battles of several
villages. Later their division disintegrated and he returned to
Armenia. However, later he joined the volunteer division and again
departed for Artsakh.

On January 5, 1993 he was seriously injured, but no one managed to
convince him to return to Armenia. In just a few doctors did not
manage to save him after his two legs were cut as a result of mine
blast.