Legendary commander Karen Jalavyan has addressed the content of a video circulating on the Internet, which also contains unjust accusations against him. Yerkir.am presented the commander's response and observations: "This comment is only out of respect for my fallen soldier...
The Internet is not the place where I would like to address any issue, I prefer to talk about issues face to face, looking into each other's eyes, with facts, arguments.
Recently, a video was released in which my name is mentioned by the mouth of the parent (father) of my fallen soldier.
Question: who is the author of that video, do you know him, what is his past and description, who is he for, what is his purpose, why in Russian... There is no need to judge deeply to understand the purpose and intention, judge for yourself, when the person who is hosting the video, a certain Roman Baghdasaryan, is a despicable tool, when he serves both the enemy and all those dark forces who are bent on weakening Armenia and defaming the dignity of the Armenian, who is a sower of filth, and whose only goal is to contaminate and defame. This time, he has chosen a new victim for his insidious and vile deed, the father of the victim, Neso Atayan.
Now a brief reflection on the father of my martyred soldier, Atayan... Atayan, as the father of one who sacrificed his life for the homeland, with all due respect and humility before his grave, I consider it necessary to first of all ask you whether the noble work and memory of your son was worthy of being honored by someone of such unknown origin, serving the Turks, devoid of manly conduct and manners, and possessing a lowly demeanor, and thereby tarnishing your son's noble work and bright memory.
Yes, it is a direct disrespect to the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for the homeland. Now, the question is: when the commander you mentioned was seriously wounded twice during the first Artsakh struggle for survival for the defense and liberation of your native Martakert at the age of 19, where were you and many like you after the occupation of the Martakert region?
You had found refuge outside Artsakh, and returned to your family only some time after moving there, in 1997, when the war had ended 3 years ago.
Where were you in 2016, when the commander you mentioned with 10 people and 3 tanks prevented what happened in Talish in 2020? In the April 2016 four-day war, who personally led and conducted the battle, with 3 tanks and 10 men, without losing a single victim, on the night of April 1-2, the 15-kilometer area occupied by the enemy was driven back in two hours and its elite Yashma Brigade was crushed.
During the entire 2020 war, compared to other military units, it suffered incomparably few losses. Out of 5,000 casualties, 24 were from the military unit I commanded, and during the 2023 military operation, 14 out of 160 casualties.
Let me continue to ask: where were you during the 2020 44-day war? to transport material resources from Stepanakert, when under the command of the commander you mentioned, among the volunteers who arrived from Gyumri and various parts of our homeland, there were elderly people over 70 fighting on the front lines, I will mention only one, Grandpa Vaghinak, from Gyumri, you will know...
Where were you when the commander you mentioned, when you received the brigade mentioned by you, where your son was killed, in combat position 720, in a position when it was only 800 meters away from the first house in the Martakert settlement, there was no trench, in terms of engineering equipment it was inferior to the fully equipped enemy position located 20 meters away, in the case when you were the deputy head of the administration?
You mention that on September 24, I spoke to the battalion commander, and then the brigade commander, by mobile phone, while I have not had mobile phone contact with the commander of my battalion in the Martakert wing since the start of the military operation on September 19, 2023. When you are calm, you will ask yourself why, before the war of September 19, 2023, the enemy launched two missile strikes on two locations of the permanent deployment brigade led by the commander you mentioned, in front of the Russian peacekeepers.
You will tell Roman to ask his fellow Turks, perhaps out of respect... And as for your call, no such thing happened.
You are talking about exhuming corpses. If you had seen the war, you would know how the bodies of the dead are exchanged, but you, unlike many of our compatriots, are still lucky to have been able to gloriously lay your son to rest, who sacrificed his life for the sake of the homeland, but the parents of hundreds of our children who sacrificed for the sake of the homeland are still waiting for a miracle, alive or just waiting, so that they can at least lay the remains of their children to rest.
Your child would be very ashamed if he knew that his father paid tribute to the desecration of the sanctities of the homeland, to the fabricated transactions of a homosexual entity, moreover, he did not spare even to tarnish the heroic episodes of the war. What did you want, I still do not understand ... "
