Public figures protest Anna Hakobyan’s initiative in Artsakh

Emil Lazarian 2020
Panorama, Armenia
Dec 25 2020

Prime Minister's wife Anna Hakobyan has initiated a New Year event in Artsakh for children to be held on December 26-27 in Stepanakert. Hakobyan's initiative has triggered anger among some public figures in Artsakh. 

Davit Ghahramanyan, photographer at Artsakh Information Center and actor at Stepanakert State Drama Theatre, has reacted to the initiative of the PM's wife on Facebook. 

"The traitor has no right to step on our wounded Artsakh. We will give a New Year mood to our children without your dirty gifts," Ghahramanyan wrote, informing he had received a call from Yerevan and asked to take photos during Hakobyan's event, which he rejected. 

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