List of Shame: how Armenian army fought

If the army is a source of pride for Azerbaijan, then it is a source of shame for Armenia. Moreover, regardless of how the fighting ends. The Armenian army does not know how to win or lose with dignity. The first Karabakh War was remembered not for the exploits and brilliant military operations of the "victor", but for numerous war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Azerbaijani population. The neighbors have nothing to be proud of. As for the 44-day war, it was really bad. Left without direct outside support, the "winners" showed themselves from the most shameful side. So obvious that it is no longer possible to hide it.

According to Armenian media, the Armenian Prosecutor's Office accuses the son of former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, Artur Ohanyan, of the failure of the operation to eliminate the breakthrough of the Azerbaijani armed Forces in the direction of Leletepe during the 44-day war. According to the investigation, the commander of the unit, Artur Ohanyan, was negligent, did not properly perform his official duties on October 6-7, 2020, which led to "grave consequences."

So that's it. On October 6, Ohanyan received an order from Jalal Harutyunyan, the leader of the illegal armed separatist group, beautifully called the "defense army," to launch an offensive in the direction of Goradiz-Leletepe. The occupation units wanted to restore the line of defense, and at the same time recoup for the loss of this strategic height during the April 2016 battles. Although, having been defeated in those battles, Armenian strategists tried to belittle the importance of this position, the amount of effort devoted to its return during the 2020 war suggests the opposite.

It should be recalled that the Armenian media previously claimed that the order to recapture Leletepe was given to the army by Supreme Commander Nikol Pashinyan, and not by the commander of the separatist group.

So, according to the Armenian Prosecutor's Office, Ohanyan Jr. did not comply with the order. Due to improper execution of orders, lack of interaction between units, violation of the order of movement, disorderly distribution of forces, lack of further planning, much fewer personnel and equipment reached the deployment site, which led to the failure of the combat mission. That is, the Armenian "warriors of light" simply deserted, scattered along the way, including taking their weapons.

Let's move on. According to the Armenian media, as part of the same production, it turned out that the battalion commander of the unit, Lieutenant Colonel Gegham Abrahamyan, refused to participate in a combat mission, allegedly to count weapons and ammunition. Abrahamyan ordered the battalion's personnel to deviate from the established route, refused offers to establish contact with the higher command, and then, without the permission of the senior commander, ordered the entire battalion's personnel to turn around and return, effectively abandoning the continuation of the counteroffensive. Another battalion commander, Garnik Mnatsakanyan, rolled over in an anti-tank ditch on a tank. And although he got out unharmed, he refused to continue the attack by his unit's forces, remaining in place. As stated in the indictment, Mnatsakanyan, using the incident with the tank as an excuse, with the intention of avoiding active participation in the counteroffensive and possible subsequent hostilities, remained in place without taking measures to restore control and coordinate further actions of subordinate personnel, effectively refusing to continue the combat mission.

Based on the collected facts, a prosecution was initiated against Artur Ohanyan under the article "negligent attitude to service during martial law, war or in a combat situation." The article "refusal to perform military service duties during martial law" was applied to Abrahamyan and Mnatsakanyan.

As for the "commander" Jalal Harutyunyan, this figure had previously been sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for failure in this and other episodes of the last war. That's not enough for such offenses. They give more for ordinary theft. For defeat in a war, they are punished with a tribunal or long terms of imprisonment.

But back to Ohanian Jr. After the 44-day war, journalists calculated that he had died of his wounds, but no specific information about this appeared. Why this fact had to be hidden is not very clear.

Shortly before the start of the war, an article about Arthur Ohanian and his adventures was published in the Armenian media. It turned out that his name appeared in a criminal case on bribery brought against a number of military personnel of one of the military units. Artur Ohanyan's involvement in the shooting of demonstrators on March 1, 2008 also came to light. The journalists talked with former colleagues of the son of the ex-Minister of Defense, and they said that he was beating up soldiers, walking around the territory of a military unit, brandishing a service pistol, behaving indecently and swearing.

The journalists were outraged, but Ohanyan Jr. was just a typical example of a "warrior of light." As the 44-day war showed, there were enough of them in the Armenian army. 11,000 deserters is a huge figure for an army of 44,000. This means that every fourth Armenian serviceman was a deserter. Moreover, desertion, as has already been proven, began with the commanding staff. And this is a tragedy for any army. The commander of the unit does not ensure the execution of the commander-in-chief's order (and the order about Leletepe came from Pashinyan anyway), the battalion commanders refuse to lead the soldiers into battle, the personnel scatter, taking their weapons. And all this is normal for the Armenian army. Ohanyan Sr. performed "feats", fighting with the peaceful unarmed population and the militia, who had one machine gun for five. The younger one did not want to take the height in 2020, which daddy lost in April 2016. That's right, that's fine, considering who we're talking about.

Ohanian Jr.'s story is not so much about negligence and betrayal as about the Armenian army and the warrior nation that our neighbors have always considered themselves to be. More precisely, they tried to convince the Armenian society that they were a nation of warriors, using some unrealistic stories from the past. There were simply no examples from the present. The First Karabakh War has been overgrown with legends and tall tales, and the Armenian identity continues to be based on them for the time being. But many are already beginning to doubt, and many are no longer afraid to tell the truth. Recently, video comments by well-known Armenian experts, in particular former Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan, were posted on social networks, which openly and directly stated that if it were not for Russia, "not Gaidar," Armenia would not have been able to occupy the territories of Azerbaijan. In other words, the neighbors themselves are already debunking the tales of the heroic victory of a small group of Armenians over an enemy that is a hundred times more numerous and armed.

And you don't need any special evidence. The main and indisputable proof is the Second Karabakh War, which showed that it is time for Armenians to be erased from history textbooks.