WHY ARF DID NOT OCCUPY NAKHIDJEVAN
Lragir.am
07/05/10
On May 7, reporters told Vahan Shirkhanyan that one of the ARF
Dashnaktsutyun members, who fought for the liberation of Shushi,
stated, "Levon Ter-Petrosyan turned out not to be clever enough:
he had to occupy Nakhidjevan then".
Vahan Shirkhanyan says that in order to conquer Nakhidjevan just one
detachment was needed. And the ARF did not have it. Then uncontrolled
detachments were travelling all over Armenia, they were detachments
of the ARF, while for Nakhidjevan only one was needed. "I understand
Levon Ter-Petrosyan because he realized the hard situation in which
Armenia would appear if it had several fronts", says Vahan Shirkhanyan.
He says that if that step was made by the state, it would not be
digested but if an uncontrolled detachment entered in Nakhidjevan,
it could be somehow digested.
By the way, he also said that in 1992, in Armenia the situation was
so that Levon Ter-Petrosyan could not but know about the occupation
of Shushi. Whether on May 8, 1992 when Ter-Petrosyan was in Iran
he knew that Shushi was being librated, Shirkhanyan did not like to
speak, saying that we have to wait until Levon Ter-Petrosyan writes
his memories.