Lragir, Armenia
Dec 4 2007
DUDAYEV PREVENTED BASAYEV FROM FIGHTING IN KARABAKH
`There are people who may remember righteously that both the Taliban
and Shamil Basayev got their first military practice in Karabakh.
They can remember it, as to Shamil Basayev, I also remember
something. He was prevented by Djohar Dudayev,’ the leader of the
National Democratic Party Shavarsh Kocharyan stated December 4 at the
Hayatsk Club in answer to the question how expedient it is to voice
the thesis on the religious component of the Karabakh conflict, which
Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan has recently done in the United States.
Shavarsh Kocharyan says this component existed but it was not the
underlying component, and it was a mistake to speak about it. `This
component should not be focused on,’ said the leader of the National
Democratic Party.