GEVORKYAN’S ESCAPE TO AZERBAIJAN DUE TO UNBEARABLE CONDITIONS IN ARMENIA

news.az
April 2 2010
Azerbaijan

The fugitive Armenian family is complaining about the unbearable
living conditions in their homeland.

The report demonstrated on Azerbaijani ATV channel Thursday features
Armenian citizen Yegishe Gevorkyan complaining about injustice
in Armenia.

"There is no life in Armenia. The Karabakh group seized the power
and does everything it wants. People are unemployed and they are
doing everything to earn a living All Armenians have lost hope and
are trying to escape from the country. Therefore, we have transferred
to the Azerbaijani side", Gevorkyan said.

He noted that today the real population of Armenia does not exceed
1,500,000 people. "Though according to statistics there are 2.5-3
million people in Armenia. It is done to falsify the elections",
he said.

Gervorkyan’s wife Ruzanna Mardanyan said the family ran away from the
country because of children. "We saw that there are no opportunities
to bring up children in Armenia. I have two sons and a daughter. When
the sons turn 18, they will have to serve in the army, but whom will
they defend? Considering this, we have passed to Azerbaijan in order
to leave for a third country afterward", Mardanyan said.

She noted that Armenians often bring up children on anti-Turkic
propaganda.

"This is a sick ideology. We do not raise up our children like this.

My brother is 30 and he has never served in the army. We consider that
peoples cannot terminate each other because of a piece of land. We
must live in piece like we did before", Mardanyan said.

As for genocide committed by Armenians in Azerbaijan’s Khojaly, when
over 600 Azerbaijanis including children, women and elderly persons
were killed on 26 February 1992, Gevorkyan said that there is no wide
information on this issue.

"This is inadmissible. What was the fault of the children and
civilians? This could be done only by Sargsyan (Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan who was fighting in Nagorno Karabakh)", said Gevorkyan.

As reported earlier, 52-year-old Yegishe Gevorkyan, his wife Ruzanna
Mardanyan and their three children at the age of seven, six and three
years old broke the fence on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and drove
into the Nakhchivan autonomous republic of Azerbaijan on January 10.