CivilNet: Reporting from the War Zone: CivilNet’s Ani Paitjan’s Account

Emil Lazarian 2020
CIVILNET.AM

9 October, 2020 13:36

CivilNet reporter Ani Paitjan has just returned to Yerevan after covering the war in Nagorno Karabakh. She recounted her experience with regards to air-raids, her interactions with the local inhabitants, the effect on the work of journalists, and her resolve to return to Nagorno-Karabakh as soon as possible. 

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS