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  • Sparapet Vazgen Sarkisian's birthday: he would have turned 51

    Aysor, Armenia
    March 5 2010


    Sparapet Vazgen Sarkisian's birthday: he would have turned 51


    On March 5 Vazgen Sarkisian, late Armenia's Defense Minister and Prime
    Minister, would have turned 51 years old, had he not been gunned down
    11 years ago on October 27, 1999.

    Vazgen Sarkisian, who devoted much of his life to the Armenian fight
    with Azerbaijan for liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh, was crowned by
    Armenian nation as Sparapet ` the title that over ages was awarded to
    very few persons.

    Vazgen Sarkisian was very influential in creating the Armenian army
    after the Soviet Union's collapse; he greatly contributed to
    liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh, helped found the Karabakh Committee,
    commanded ground troops (1990`92), and held senior posts in the
    defense ministry and government of Armenia.

    Vazgen Sarkisian was born in 1959 in the village of Ararat. He was a
    qualified sports trainer and taught physical education until 1983,
    when he started his political career.

    In 1985 he became a member of Armenian Writers' Union, and worked as a
    chief of the department of journalism of Garun magazine (The Spring).

    In 1990-92s, Sparapet was the commander of the Erkrapa group
    volunteers, gaining a reputation as a military leader. It was this
    reputation that helped him to rise to the office of Defense Minister
    of Armenia in 1991 and country's Prime Minister in 1999.

    Nearly five months later he was shot dead during an armed attack on
    Armenian Parliament on October 27, 1999.

    Sparapet Vazgen Sarkisian was posthumously awarded as Armenia's National Hero.

    By this day, marking Vazgen Sarkisian's birthday and in dedication to
    his memory in people's hearts, `The Sparapet' (Warlord) book by
    Colonel Martin Bagdasarian is to be published.
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