Vahram Atanesyan, a former member of the Artsakh National Assembly and analyst, wrote on his Facebook page.
"Vahan Badasyan is convinced that "the Russians will not leave here" (from Nagorno-Karabakh).
Even in 1915, Aram Pasha was convinced that the Russians would not leave Van; they came to stay forever. But the Russians left. And when the "general governor" of Van, Aram Pasha, asked them to at least leave the artillery and means of communication, he was rudely refused. And on the way of migration from Vaspurakan to Igdir, tens of thousands of Armenians were killed, starved to death, and drowned in the Bandimahu River. Fifty years later, Gurgen Mahari wrote the novel "Burning Forests," and those who had not seen Van, Aram Pasha, deportation, and Aver commented that Mahari "distorts the historical past." It turns out Mahari was "misrepresenting" his life, and those raising the statue of Aram Pasha in the center of Yerevan are "reaffirming the historical heroic battle."
The syndrome should not be repeated."
