After the Publication of the CSTO Secretary-General's Letter, Nikol, You Should Have Gone to the NSS and Asked to be Arrested, Gegham Nazaryan

Political scientist Gegham Nazaryan, whose son is considered missing during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, made a post on his Facebook page referring to the publication of the letter addressed by CSTO Secretary-General Stanislav Zas to the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan, which essentially warned about the war.

"It has been three months since I haven’t been able to sleep at night, and for three months tens of thousands of our compatriots have been unable to sleep either. For three months we haven’t been able to forgive ourselves for not preventing this disaster. And now, when Mikael Minasyan published the letter from CSTO Secretary-General Stanislav Zas to the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, we understood that we would not be able to sleep for a long time. Four weeks before the bloody, tragic, and devastating war, the CSTO warned at the highest level about it and even hinted what should be done to avoid the disaster. They warned, but Nikol apparently not only did not listen to the June calls from the Chief of the Armenian Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan, but also disregarded Stanislav Zas’s letter. Let’s state clearly: for whatever reasons, Nikol chose the war.

Let’s be more candid; Nikol has chosen the option of killing our children, the option of turning our children into disabled persons, handing them over as captives, and surrendering Shushi to the Azerbaijanis. Nikol, how do you manage to sleep or walk calmly, to speak? After the publication of this letter from the CSTO Secretary-General, you should have gone to the NSS and asked to be arrested. You haven’t done that yet, but you need to. You have no other choice.

Now it’s clear to everyone: you could have prevented the war, you could have saved at least five thousand lives, you could have avoided making ten thousand people disabled, you could have prevented the surrender of Hadrut and Shushi, Berdzor and Karvachar. Have you seen the eyes of 18-year-old boys who suffered severe injuries but miraculously survived? You haven’t seen, you cannot see. If you could see, you would be pleading to be arrested and imprisoned yourself.

It’s impossible to sleep at night; we will not be sleeping for a long time, but like my good friend, many like him urge that for the sake of our sons, we must stay strong, that there is much work yet to be done for our sons. We will be strong. We will definitely be strong. And I am now announcing that I have made an important decision, about which I will announce in the next one or two days," he wrote.