Shura Ghulyan, forcibly displaced from the occupied Republic of Artsakh, told in the framework of “Artsakh: Armenian Genocide 2023. Stories of Survivors” documentary project of Iravaban.net, that he was displaced from Chldran village of Martakert region.
He mentioned that during the war unleashed by Azerbaijan in 2020, they did not leave their home, only their daughter-in-law and small children left, and their son fought.
“After 2020, we lived in fear. I worked in the Drombon mine. They were passing by me. The Turkish “caravan” was coming to Karvachar. They looked at us very badly,” Mr. Shura says.
He remembers that on 19 September, 2023, when the enemy unleashed another aggression, he was at work.
“My children were taken to the shelter by their neighbors. That night the Turks took Getavan, they were coming with tanks. I came home at three in the morning. There was no one at home. My son was fighting. The children were in the shelter, I didn’t know their place. My son came at 4:30 at night. In the morning they hit my house with shells. My son and I were at home. We had a big container; it sovered us from the fragments. We left everything. We did not take anything with us. We left the village and went to Stepanakert. From there, on 25 September, we moved to Armenia. We traveled for three days. When we came; they stopped us at the Hakari bridge, checked the car, counted us and told us to leave. I do not know what happened in our village. Everyone has left the village,” he says.
Our interlocutor says that he no longer believes in international structures.
“Both France and America, they are complete fake. Why did they turn a blind eye to our Karabakh? We were kept under siege for 9 months, and finally make us leave. They were shooting at the cars that were coming from the villages to the city as if telling to leave as soon as possible. It happened that sometimes the shells stuck the cars, there were deaths or people left the car and ran away. We survived somehow,” he says.
Shura Ghulyan’s family now lives on rent in one of the villages of Armenia. There is no heating in the house, the living conditions are not sufficient, and the rent is expensive: 150,000 AMD.
According to our interlocutor, what happened in Artsakh is genocide. “If the people had stayed a little longer, no one would have been left there. They were going to slaughter everyone.”.
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