Father of fallen Armenian soldier tells Nikol Pashinyan to take government squad and go to border

News.am, Armenia

Zaven Mkrtchyan, father of fixed-term serviceman Hayk Mkrtchyan who fell in the second war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), posted the following on his Facebook page:

“Today I heard the chief manipulator [Nikol Pashinyan] say that, after thinking long and hard for four-and-a-half months, he has decided to make a sacrifice and will declare that he is defeated so that the people don’t feel that they are defeated. I say that it would be more fair and honest if he (since he declared in parliament that he is ready to die) took a 30-member squad of government officials and elected himself as a commander of the squad, entered the office of Soros, received a blessing and went to the border to join the men on the border, fight the last battle of Sardarapat and protect them from the strikes of Turkish UAVs, even if he died.

Now he is talking about being executed. The person who is ready to be executed should have executed himself on the night of November 9, 2020. So, the person who led thousands of young people to death must be punished. I’m not even talking about the loss of a large part of Artsakh because that can be theoretically returned. Nevertheless, I hope he fulfills his promise at least once, and we, the people, will witness him being executed at the square after June 21 when the elections are over since garnering less than half of the votes will be secured, even in case of perfect electoral fraud.”

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