Samvel Babayan Has Provided Quite Remarkable Information - Tigran Abrahamyan

Member of the National Assembly's "I Have Honor" faction, Tigran Abrahamyan, shared the following statement:

“During the 44-day war, Samvel Babayan, who served as the secretary of the Security Council of Artsakh, recently provided quite remarkable information to various media outlets. According to Babayan, there are attempts to edit and falsify military orders from the wartime period, meaning the government is trying to erase its traces. While he claims he is unaware of who has initiated such processes in the army, it is evident that without the knowledge or initiative of the government and personally Nikol Pashinyan, Vagarshak Harutyunyan, Arshak Karapetyan, Artak Davtyan, the former and current commanders of the Defense Army, and especially Suren Papikyan would not have proceeded with such steps.

I would like to remind you that the government intended to include Babayan as an expert in the National Assembly's inquiry commission on the 44-day war – essentially, even before the commission's work had begun, one of the individuals present in the command bunker during the military operations was reporting a horrific crime to the law enforcement agencies. If we rely on Babayan’s statements, it is quite likely that the creation of the National Assembly’s inquiry commission is being delayed for this reason, because it appears that the government is busy cleaning up its tracks regarding what it did and did not do during the war before the process even starts.

I do not have expectations from law enforcement agencies, although I am confident they are monitoring Samvel Babayan’s statements. However, my message is directed to entirely different actors, those who have undertaken the process of "cleaning" in the Ministry of Defense. Everyone knows the number one responsible person for the war and the one to blame—Nikol Pashinyan, along with the tools that served him. However, anyone who protects the authorities and conceals or edits traces regarding the war—whether they are civilian special service personnel, military, or anyone with another status—will bear a heavier responsibility than others. No one can endure this disgraceful function of rewriting history, let alone concealing a crime, and sooner or later it will be exposed, with the guilty being labeled as traitors.”