“I have participated in military operations since the beginning of the movement. I also participated in the four-day war of 2016, this last war, with a detachment. On my initiative, the “Kajari” detachment was created in 1991. We had a total of 9 casualties from our detachment, 3 of which were in the last war.” The freedom fighter, Aghabek Khachatryan or as his friends say, Bek founder of X military unit tells.
According to him, the enemy has understood that there is no need to fight in the mountains with the Armenians, they cannot. Beck says that they took part in serious military operations with their detachment, liberated land and it is very painful to witness the recent events after that.
“It was still in the 90s; 17 of us gathered to take an oath that whoever survives should come here and light a candle. Unfortunately, only three of us survived, may God enlighten the boys’ souls. We were able to win the war with glory, we did not receive gifts like today, but we won, liberated our ancestral lands. I am surprised that some people do not know the history of Artsakh world. Are those people ignorant? “Now why do they speak Armenian when they do not know that Mesrop Mashtots wrote the Armenian letters in 405 by the will of God in Amaras, in the middle of Stepanakert,” Bek says.
The Military Unit X became more famous after the 2020 war. Monuments, photos and various items with the names of hundreds of killed servicemen were placed in the open museum. Beck’s friends, the parents of the fallen soldiers, help with its construction, one with a bag of sand, one with glue, or whatever they could.
The museum is at the top of the gorge. New buildings are being built in the area. According to Bek, some people intended to demolish, some understood that it was not necessary, the other did not, but the museum should not be demolished. “Let the owners understand that if a person can have 15 thousand meters of land, why shouldn’t the museum of the victims, have only 300 square meters?. This is the house of the victims, the house of all of us. “Every visitor should remember his military unit, remember the number of his military unit instead of X,” he says.
Commandos: Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan has a special place in the museum: The photo has been placed so that it looked in the direction of the word Shushi.
“Shushi will be ours, it is ours. Our people, everyone must understand that Armenia does not exist without Artsakh. Needless to say, Artsakh is ours and that’s it. No. “The last Armenian must shed blood for Artsakh and Shushi, to be ours,” the freedom fighter said.
Here are some of the wounds of St. Ghazanchetsots Church in Shushi.
“What does it mean let’s be friends? They were on their knees for 30 years. Why didn’t they offer such a thing? Why didn’t they say, ‘Dear Armenians, let’s make friends,'” the freedom fighter said.
Commander Vazgen Sargsyan, when he was gathering the “mahaparts”, strongly urged them not to be taken prisoner. “He said, ‘Don’t even think to be captured, We’ve taken the oath in Yerablur, don’t even think about being captured with the last bullet in the pocket,” Aghabek Khachatryan says.
“A thousand praises to Vazgen Sargsyan. He had such a good memory. He remembered everyone: name, surname, patronymic, address; He knew who the asphalt fidain was. Now, comrade leaders, who is hindering you? Give an order; tell the rich, purchase weapons. We are going to war with the guys wuo are ready to fight right now. Let them hear that. Like Sparapet Vazgen tell his brother to bring the money, Demirchyan to his son, one to the other? We must buy weapons. “Let each person pay 10 drams a day, we are 10 million Armenians, let’s see how much money is collected in a month,” Bek said.
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