Let Kocharyan say where his son was during the war. The most disgusting campaign against my family has begun. Nikol Pashinyan

Today that man's family member says that voting for Pashinyan means voting for Aliyev, Nikol Pashinyan stated during a meeting with supporters in Abovyan, referring to Levon Kocharyan's statement.

“Let Kocharyan say where his son was during the war. Let an investigation begin about where my son was during the war. They really don't forgive this thing. How come your son should be sent to the military to serve, should he be at the front line? The most disgusting campaign against my family has begun,” he said.

Pashinyan noted that after the war began, he was shown a video of a large flow of vehicles from Stepanakert: “I send my wife to Stepanakert and say, you go to show that the direction comes from here to there. My wife is going to a bombarded city. One idiot says that Anna Hakobyan planted spies in the military units so that the enemy would hit the target accurately. It is not a coincidence, tomorrow there will be a publication about a well-known volunteer group; representatives of the command structure were caught supporting the Azerbaijanis during the operation to capture Hadrut. I don’t understand one thing, maybe I am misunderstanding. Sending a family member to a bombarded city… should I have sent him to the Canary Islands? That would have been considered normal, right? People said all sorts of things about my son. There is one fool who says that 1200 soldiers died to evacuate Ashot. I said that should have legal consequences. The guy who was in the same trench with my son died. They were lying together, their shoulders touching each other. That guy died, Ashot is fine. There have been other stories there that I cannot talk about,” he said.

After Stepanakert, when I say that this is Sardarapat, we must stand, my wife is forming a women’s volunteer group and they go to Sisian for military training and then stand in the trenches of Goris. What is wrong with this, is it treason? Should they have been in salons for it to be right? Pashinyan announced in Abovyan: “They ask why the group is named Erato. Because Erato is the granddaughter of Tigran the Great, she is the queen of Armenia. They say that she is the last queen. We say we take what we left unfinished; we must take it so that the state does not stop,” he said. “They say all sorts of things about my family members, just like a cult, because they are that kind,” he added.