Vagif Khachatryan, who was handed over to Armenia due to humanitarian reasons and health concerns by Baku this January, met with another war criminal, Robert Kocharyan, in Masis. One executioner shook the hand of the other. As the saying goes, "water finds its own level."
This meeting may seem like a minor element of the propaganda campaign of the Khojaly criminal and his group related to the upcoming parliamentary elections. But often, bitter truths are hidden in the details...
It is no secret that radical revanchists view the June 7 elections as the last chance to return to power or as an opportunity for political rehabilitation. They are talking about returning to the old course of confrontation with Azerbaijan and Turkey, turning the country again into Moscow's lawless vassal and shifting back to a Kremlin-guided policy.
In other words, the main goal is to erase all the achievements gained in the peace process between Baku and Yerevan and to fully return the negotiations under Kremlin patronage. Knowing well the disasters this patronage brought to the two neighboring peoples since the Soviet era.
We have repeatedly written that if Moscow wanted peaceful coexistence and reconciliation between Azerbaijan and Armenia, it would have solved the "Nagorno-Karabakh problem" fairly during the Soviet period, instead of stirring up conflicts from time to time and "pouring gasoline on the fire"...
However, the problem is that Kocharyan is not alone in his destructive mission. The Russian "paratrooper," billionaire Samvel Karapetyan, currently under house arrest, is also his comrade on the same path, a carrier of the same dangerous and sick ideology.
Although they participate in the elections in separate blocs, their strategic intentions are common: to confuse voters with appealing promises, remove Nikol Pashinyan from power, and "revive" a corrupt junta regime that serves Russia's interests in a somewhat different form in the country.
The Armenian population ought to know this better than anyone. They must know because this will be no ordinary election—it will be a matter of life and death. A wrong move this time could bring about the end of the symbolic state called Armenia. Unfortunately, there are many Armenians who cannot foresee what comes after June 7.
With 40 days left to the elections, there is also an indifferent, unknown faction. Undoubtedly, this group's significant impact will affect the election results—whether they participate in voting or not. There's a saying: "If you do not engage in politics, politics will engage with you." Or if you do not want to decide your own fate, others—war proponents—will do it for you...
Luckily, there are pragmatic Armenians like blogger Natali Aleksanyan, who is grounded and realistic. She gave a harsh reaction to the Kocharyan-Khachatryan meeting. Because she knows well that nothing good will come to the poor Armenian people from the contact between these two villains.
"Vagif Khachatryan is a villain whom Azerbaijan, in general, must not let go. Thanks to Nikol Pashinyan, he is in Armenia shaking hands with Robert Kocharyan. I appeal to the Azerbaijani state: please do not release the rest. They are enemies of Armenia!" the blogger, who frequently exposes revanchists and sincerely works for the reconciliation of the two peoples, said in her appeal.
It is impossible to disagree. These creatures do not deserve freedom, not even the air they breathe. Truly, the greatest enemy of the Armenians is themselves. Their constant search for a master and the habit of being a tool in others' hands is their nature. If as a society they do not rid themselves of this strange ideology, hatred of Turks, and foolish myths, they will lose even the 29.7 thousand square kilometers of Armenia...
As for Aleksanyan's call to Baku, frankly, such a courageous stance might cost her dearly. Let's not forget, although Armenia’s foreign policy has partially shifted positively in recent years, essentially it remains a terrorist state. Its territory is filled with statue complexes turned into pilgrimage sites for terrorists and assassins (such as the divisive Andranik, Garegin Nzhdeh, etc.).
One of them, and the last, was erected during Pashinyan's era—in April 2023 in Yerevan. It is called the "Nemesis" complex. We have yet to mention the Armenian church, a den of terror, and the power of the fascist-leaning Armenian lobby with influence far and wide...
Zahid SAFAROV