We Armenians had a share of very cruel fate, and sometimes I want to understand why all this had to happen to us and me personally. Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia stated this at Friday’s meeting with the ruling Civil Contract Party supporters at Kanaker-Zeytun district of Yerevan.
“Sometimes when I meet with the relatives of deceased or missing soldiers, they get frustrated and tell me I can’t understand their grief, but then I ask them how they know I can’t. I tell them my grief is for 4,000 soldiers, while they are only in grief for their sons and husbands. I have lived and still live with the sense that I have lost 4,000 sons, and I’m not exaggerating at all,” he said.
Pashinyan added that during a meeting with relatives of missing servicemen, he told them that he hadn’t asked about his son’s fate during the war because it would mean that he distinguishes between the soldiers.
Touching upon the return of captives, Pashinyan said he is certain that the process of the return of captives will intensify after the upcoming elections in Armenia since the factor of captives and other factors are being used to have an impact on the results of the elections.
Pashinyan also talked about those who said the authorities deceived the people during the war and told them that the Armenian side was going to win, adding that the government couldn’t tell the people that the country was going to be defeated.