THE PEOPLE, EVENTS, THOUGHTS
Murad Petrosyan

Azat Artsakh Tert
Dec 14 2007
Nagorno Karabakh Republic

1998-2007 Preface. For me and the people of my age, Artsakh Movement
began in 1966, when turks (azeris’ name) killed 12 years boy cruelly
for being armenian. Antipathy always existed and inimity removed
it. The people became angry when the court of justice took injust
verdict(they were not sentenced to capital penalty). Soon after the
people made cruel mob law over the azeris. The arrests and emergency
situation followed. It was the first stage of the movement, the
second began due to Gorbachev’s perestroika.The details are important
here, which were known to several persons,but not injustice and
distortion. Today I will tell you some moments from these events.

The reader must be sure in one: I write what I think and feel. As
the continuation of the preface. Since my childhood the politics
attracted me, in teenager’s years I began to listen to the western
radiowaves and to read the journal "Abroad". I remembered the names
of the presidents and the prime ministers better than the teachers.

Despite many "reconstructors" I realized the false of soviet
reality earlier, but national problem was realized more later. Being
in Soviet prisons for about 10 years (for stealing guns from the
millitary faculty of the Yerevan State University) and returning to
the motherland in 1977, I realized the danger of cultural colonisation.

Every person does what brings satisfaction for his soul. I was devoted
to the patriotism but not to the nationalism. My religion and faith is
the motherland. The danger of losing Karabakh, not the nation stood
before my consciousness. Objective necessity prompted me to come to
the idea of nationalism. The patriotism (especially in the country,
whose geopolitical position and future are not good) which is not
imbibed by national idea and ideology is inperspective, it’s like the
building without foundation. Armenian reality and the adherence to be
spread all over the world ,makes us give so much simpleness to nation
building, how it’s given to the statehood building. Sumgait Either
to come to Bakou with guiltiness , or to be ready for war It became
clear from the events of armenian massacres in Sumgait (the end of the
february 1988), that the problem would not be solved without military
hostilities. The political and the spiritual authorities of Azerbaijan
made armenians and Moscow realize,that Karabakh would not be ceded. It
meant either to go to the paws of heavily wounded beast, or to meet
the challenge and to prepare to war.We began to prepare for war. We
began to look for the weapon, but less of us believed the possibility
of war. The people said, "Such things can not happen in USSR, Moscow
will not let such development of the events",- it was in the brains
of everlasting sentimental people. a) It’s like today’s situation, 13
years after armistice, everyone: strong and modern army and the people
speak about the possibility of the war, but almost noone believes it’s
real possibility(if they believed, they would not make the state’s
budget empty). They say that the Great Powers will not let the war
in Karabakh again. Artsakh must be independent. "What iron logic they
have…", Nizche said exactly for such events,-"The lion hit well" b)
The political sentimentalism or one sided thought,from the beginning,
were in the thoughts of the majority of leaders of Artsakh movement.

They were not different from the people who were born and grew up in
the country where own thought in politics, philosophy and psychology
was severily punished. Till 1991 the work was not done for preparing
for war, even in moral psychological sphere.