FORMER FREEDOM-FIGHTER VARDAN MALKHASIAN: TURKS HAVE DECIDED TO ANNIHILATE ARMENIANS "BY LOVING" THEM
Noyan Tapan
Apr 15, 2009
YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. "Everything was put to auction and
sold in Armenia under Kocharian-Serzh power, and now the memory of
1.5 million victims of Armenian Genocide has been put on sale," Vardan
Malkhasian, a former freedom-fighter, a member of the Consolidation of
Armenian Volunteers public-political initiative, stated at the April
15 discussion. He reminded RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement
voiced several months ago that the peace established in Karabakh
has a price. However, according to V. Malkhasian, for S. Sargsyan
that price is neither rise of Armenian army’s spirit nor the Armenian
person and honorable life of Armenia’s citizen: S. Sargsyan considers
that the price is return of Armenian liberated lands.
According to V. Malkhasian, the Armenian-Turkish "flirt" also has
a price: for normalization of the relations Turkey demands from
Armenia destructive concessions in the issue of Nagorno Karabakh
conflict and renouncing the demand of recognition of the Armenian
Genocide. The former freedom-fighter stressed that so far the RA
Foreign Ministry and President’s Press Office have not properly refuted
Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s statements that S. Sargsyan agrees
to establish a commission of historians and to cede the liberated
territories. According to V. Malkhasian, the Armenian leadership
and Armenian people should know that now the Turks have decided to
annihilate the Armenians "by loving" them.