Father of Fallen Soldier Gives Anna Hakobyan Until Evening to Delete Photo from Facebook

The father of Arman Azatyan, who was martyred in the war unleashed by the enemy on September 27, 2020, Vigen Azatyan, spoke with 168.am about a Facebook post made early this morning by Nikol Pashinyan's wife, Anna Hakobyan, which included a photo of the Azatyan family.

Vigen Azatyan explained that he learned about Hakobyan's post from other grieving parents who rushed to send it to him. “I opened the post, and someone named Anna, without asking for my permission, made a post on her Facebook page with a photo of my family—my eldest son Arman Azatyan, my newborn, and my wife. In the post, it says ‘betrayal,’ which that scum has no right to comment on. She wrote about our sons, that the dead should be buried, and if you don’t bury them, they will rot. Can you imagine what I felt during those few hours after reading this?”

The father of the fallen soldier stated that immediately after seeing the post, he tried to contact Anna Hakobyan but was unsuccessful. “I can’t write anything on her page. After all this, that scum has allowed herself to enter our families, to speak about our sons, and to use words like ‘dead’ and ‘buried’... How immoral and despicable do you have to be to not understand, whether knowingly or unknowingly, to use such words about a 20-year-old young man, to use such words about a hero, and to attach the pictures of his family members below?”

Vigen Azatyan has given Anna Hakobyan until the evening to remove the mentioned post and the picture of his family from her Facebook page. “She needs to apologize to my family. She needs to apologize to all the families who have lost sons and have found the strength to have a child so that their house can have smoke. By the way, the birth of my child means this: first, to avenge my beloved Arman, and second, to punish the guilty, including you, dear girl, your family, and all the remaining guilty ones. You will reach my chest, and believe me, you will reach…”

“Do not do such a thing, do not enter our families. If that post is not gone from your page by the end of the day, and no apology is made, Anna, I will give you a hellish promise…”. Earlier, Anna Hakobyan had stated in her Facebook post, “One day, we must finally recognize our relationship with our homeland and bury the five-thousand-year-old dead.” In her post, she included a photo of hero Arman Azatyan, who was killed in the 44-day war, along with his mother and the recently born Arman Azatyan Jr., taken at the Yerablur military pantheon on July 1 of this year.