“You once gave a soldier strawberries, and you killed thousands”: Gegham Nazaryan

Member of the “Armenia” faction Gegham Nazaryan wrote on his Facebook page:

“Taron Chakhoyan, deputy chief of staff to Nikol, met with one of the soldiers who was on leave, asked questions, and emphasized this part of his response: ‘Everything is fine; they only give grilled kebabs on Saturdays and Sundays, they don’t make them well, they’re not tasty.’ Taron, why didn’t you write where he serves, at Martuni 3 or Martuni 2, at the Hadrut battalion or in the division, in Aralerr or Jraghakan, in Midnavan or Ishkhanadzor? Why didn’t you ask, maybe he would have said in Hadrut, and I would have asked how Abgar, Mkhitar, Narek, and Aram are doing. We would know if our boys are satisfied with kebabs or not.

You once gave a soldier strawberries, and you killed thousands. What do you want to do now? What do you want to say? I know very well the situation of the soldiers in the army, I am well aware of many newly emerged post-war issues, and I am very familiar with moral and psychological problems, but the discussion is about the army, and I do not make public statements about that.

Nevertheless, Taron, convey to your boss that the parents, wives, brothers, sisters, friends, classmates, and course mates of Mkhitar, Aram, Narek, Vachagan, Vardan, Gor, Shirak, Vrej, Gevorg, Vahik, Saro, Aziz, Arman, Kamo, Abgar, and thousands of other boys say that this strawberry and grilled kebabs will be put in their proper place so that you finally stop subjecting the soldiers to ridicule and abuse.

As for the current problems facing the army, we will talk about that without noise, without shouting where necessary. And don’t think that you will digest what has happened or that you have already digested it. Don’t you dare think that you can deceive yourselves with the official numbers of disgraced elections. The real sentiments in society are entirely different,” he wrote.