Edgar Margaryan, who died in the Artsakh war, was drafted into the army on 29 January, 2019. He was a machine gunner.
“Two years ago we sent Edgar to the army, he was very happy. He used to say, Mom, if suddenly I am not taken to Artsakh, I’ll go voluntarily and ask to take me to Artsakh, please do not interfere and disgrace me,” his mother, Arsine Sahakyan said.
The mother remembers that a few weeks before going to the army Edgar wrote on a piece of paper the words of the song “You’re going to war, safe trip” he began walking around and singing․ “It was as if my son feels where he has to go and what he has to do and he has to fight to the end for the land of Artsakh, he stayed in the land of Artsakh until the end,” the mother said.
On 27 September, 2020, the day of the war unleashed by Azerbaijan, was Edgar’s 20th birthday․ “We were going to visit him, we were already in Karvachar, when we realized that it was a war, I kept calling him but he did not answer, then he called and said, Mom, everything is fine'” the mother said.
On 29 September, in order to be closer to her son, Arsine Sahakyan voluntarily left for Artsakh to bake bread for the front line.
“Every day I wrote and put in the bags with bread, ‘let every soldier know that his mother baked this bread and sent’,” Mrs. Arsine said.
Edgar Margaryan was born on 27 September, 2000, and died on 1 October, 2020.
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