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ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IS AWARE OF MISSING ARMENIAN SOLDIERS' FATE
Milaz.info
July 15 2010
Azerbaijan
Armenian defense minister Seyran Ohanian visited Yerablur cemetery
in Yerevan on June 29, a memorial day of missing soldiers, and met
with the families of soldiers and officers killed in Karabakh.
Ohanian told journalists that no one of the missing soldiers was
found this year, APA reports. "We are working to know fate of at
least several missing people a day", said the minister and added that
according to the International Committee of the Red Cross 4000-5000
Armenians and Azerbaijanis became missing during the Karabakh war.
According to the Armenian public organization against the legal
tyranny, there are 1000 missing Armenians. The Azerbaijani war veterans
reminded about the interesting fact related to this issue.
Terter region of Azerbaijan was a scene of bloody battles later in
April, 1994 and Armenians had serious losses and left a number of
bodies and wounded soldiers on the scene of operations. After the
attack on Torpagtepe height, commander of Echmiadzin battalion Gevorg
"Kamikaze" Ayrapetian showed a white flag and approached the positions
of Azerbaijani army. During the interrogation he acknowledged that
his 296-troop motor rifle battalion was formed in Armenia and sent
to Terter on April 21. About 200 Armenian soldiers were killed and
wounded during one-week battles. Ayrapetyan said they left bodies
of a number of his relatives, including chief of staff of the 83rd
motor rifle brigade Major Gachik "Ochkarik" Ohanesian, on the scene
of operations. Colonel Manvel Grigorian, a brigade commander, ordered
to Ayrapetian to exchange bodies before information reached Yerevan.
Ayrapetian said Grigorian received a nickname "Myasnik" (slaughterer)
because he shot retreated soldiers dead. (Then he was a deputy defense
minister of Armenia and led Yerkrapa Union. Grigorian was expelled from
the army in 2007 because he supported ex-president Levon Ter-Petrisan).
Ayrapetian said Grigorian and then "deputy defense minister" of Nagorno
Karabakh Colonel Seyran Ohanian ordered to bury killed soldiers near
the settlement of Talysh and to register them as missing. They aimed
to prevent a panic among the Armenian community, which seeing a large
number of bodies would refuse to send soldiers to Karabakh. Ayrapetian
said that about 300 Armenian soldiers were buried near the 1445 height
within a week and he feared to return to Armenia because relatives
of the killed soldiers and officers would kill him.
Azerbaijani side decided to exchange bodies only after the Ayrapetian's
evidences were confirmed. The issue was coordinated with the command
and Ayrapetian was released. There was no report about his further
fate. But in 2009, Armenian newspapers reported that Lieutenant
Colonel Ayrapetian was expelled from the army for his indiscipline
and arrested in 2007.
These facts confirm that Armenian defense minister Seyran Ohanian's
statement about the missing soldiers and officers was a falsehood.
Ohanian and his assistants ordered to bury bodies of the soldiers and
not to send them home. The International Committee of the Red Cross
should conduct monitoring together with the experts in the places
showed by Ayrapetian and to evince the truth.
From: A. Papazian
Milaz.info
July 15 2010
Azerbaijan
Armenian defense minister Seyran Ohanian visited Yerablur cemetery
in Yerevan on June 29, a memorial day of missing soldiers, and met
with the families of soldiers and officers killed in Karabakh.
Ohanian told journalists that no one of the missing soldiers was
found this year, APA reports. "We are working to know fate of at
least several missing people a day", said the minister and added that
according to the International Committee of the Red Cross 4000-5000
Armenians and Azerbaijanis became missing during the Karabakh war.
According to the Armenian public organization against the legal
tyranny, there are 1000 missing Armenians. The Azerbaijani war veterans
reminded about the interesting fact related to this issue.
Terter region of Azerbaijan was a scene of bloody battles later in
April, 1994 and Armenians had serious losses and left a number of
bodies and wounded soldiers on the scene of operations. After the
attack on Torpagtepe height, commander of Echmiadzin battalion Gevorg
"Kamikaze" Ayrapetian showed a white flag and approached the positions
of Azerbaijani army. During the interrogation he acknowledged that
his 296-troop motor rifle battalion was formed in Armenia and sent
to Terter on April 21. About 200 Armenian soldiers were killed and
wounded during one-week battles. Ayrapetyan said they left bodies
of a number of his relatives, including chief of staff of the 83rd
motor rifle brigade Major Gachik "Ochkarik" Ohanesian, on the scene
of operations. Colonel Manvel Grigorian, a brigade commander, ordered
to Ayrapetian to exchange bodies before information reached Yerevan.
Ayrapetian said Grigorian received a nickname "Myasnik" (slaughterer)
because he shot retreated soldiers dead. (Then he was a deputy defense
minister of Armenia and led Yerkrapa Union. Grigorian was expelled from
the army in 2007 because he supported ex-president Levon Ter-Petrisan).
Ayrapetian said Grigorian and then "deputy defense minister" of Nagorno
Karabakh Colonel Seyran Ohanian ordered to bury killed soldiers near
the settlement of Talysh and to register them as missing. They aimed
to prevent a panic among the Armenian community, which seeing a large
number of bodies would refuse to send soldiers to Karabakh. Ayrapetian
said that about 300 Armenian soldiers were buried near the 1445 height
within a week and he feared to return to Armenia because relatives
of the killed soldiers and officers would kill him.
Azerbaijani side decided to exchange bodies only after the Ayrapetian's
evidences were confirmed. The issue was coordinated with the command
and Ayrapetian was released. There was no report about his further
fate. But in 2009, Armenian newspapers reported that Lieutenant
Colonel Ayrapetian was expelled from the army for his indiscipline
and arrested in 2007.
These facts confirm that Armenian defense minister Seyran Ohanian's
statement about the missing soldiers and officers was a falsehood.
Ohanian and his assistants ordered to bury bodies of the soldiers and
not to send them home. The International Committee of the Red Cross
should conduct monitoring together with the experts in the places
showed by Ayrapetian and to evince the truth.
From: A. Papazian