Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[londontsi]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Suren Khachateryan's piece of sh-t scumbag murderous son still hasn't served in the army. Instead of worrying about disabled people, let's start with that.

"Syunik governor Suren Khachatryan, the son of appearing in scandals left frontline"

Not sure if this is a PR exercise.

When did he train to be sent to the front line.

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[Etchmiadzin]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Maybe just to force Armenia to pull resources from Artsakh.

[londontsi]

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[Joseph]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Second Time Soldiers: Black Panthers of Armavir return to Karabakh

By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN -

April 29, 2016

Men of all ages, gathered in the courtyard of the Armavir Provincial
Military Commissariat, give a loud military salute to the commander’s
greeting, which is followed by response in a manly voice: “Good luck
guys and welcome back”.

Those who have come from the communities of the province are mostly
former members of the Black Panther brigade who participated in the
Karabakh war in the early 1990s, and today are again off to stand
there next to new generation of fighting men.

“All of us are volunteer servicemen. A part of my squad is already in
Karabakh. Now we are taking the next group. They have a great fighting
spirit: they are well prepared. We should be next to our children. At
the cost of life, the independence generation kept the sacred
boundary, which has been drawn up by the blood of their parents and
grandparents. They are more powerful than us,” says Rustam Gasparyan,
the commander of the Black Panther squad and a Member of Parliament.

The squad was formed in 1989 and joined other such groups from
villages throughout the province. In 1993, a battalion was formed on
the foundation of the company. The Black Panther participated in
Kelbajar, Fizuli, Kubatlu, Kashatagh defense and liberation battles. A
total of 11 fighters of the squad were killed.

Khachatur Asatryan, the head of the Margara village council, said that
30 community leaders from the province are among the new volunteers.

“The decision is ours. All of us decided to go and support our sons.
We protect our land, our territory, our duty is to keep the peace of
our families and not to allow the enemy to crush us in our houses, not
to allow the border violation even by a millimeter,” said 42-year-old
Asatryan.

Friends, relatives and children have come to see off those who are
leaving. They hug each other and say farewell speeches, like: “We are
looking forward to seeing you back”.

Razmik Malkhasyan, from the Yeghegnut village is a Karabakh war
veteran and says that he is living to be with the children.

“Three boys from our family are conscripts. We have to support those
children, even though they are more courageous than us,” says the
Malkhasyan.

By giving last instructions to those who are leaving, Gasparyan
repeats a parable: “A cat, even wearing a lion’s pelt, will flee at
sight of a dog. It is not the pelt that will make a man courageous,
but the inner fighting spirit is the important thing.”

Analyzing the events of the four-day war sparked at the beginning of
April at the line of contact between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan,
the military commander of the Black Panther says that having such a
well-equipped army, so many troops, mercenaries, Azerbaijan suffered
ignominious defeat.

“Those few positions they were able to capture means nothing. In such
cases, they must have advanced for tens of kilometers, whereas they
were able to advance just a hundred meters, and our soldiers prevented
them. They are the same Azeris that stood in front of us [in the late
1980s to 1994]. They had more human resources than us at that time,
too, had more weapons, and we were fighting against their tanks with
rifles, but won the war. Today, nothing has changed,” says Rustam
Gasparyan.

Boryan Babayan, a Karabakh war veteran from the village of Lernagog,
says that he is ready to die for his native land, and that he goes to
finish up some work he has left incomplete.

The commander of the squad adds: “Believe me, we, Karabakh war
veterans, want this issue to be finally settled. We are waiting for
instructions. We will move forward and this time we’ll definitely not
stop. We will put an end [to this issue] at once. Otherwise, every
time, in such situations we lose our children in the frontline. The
victory has to be complete. We need to rely on ourselves. If foreign
forces help us, they put forward their demands. No, we are our
strength and hope.”

The buses full of volunteer servicemen – full of bravado — are moving
to Karabakh. It is the second time Armen Hovhannisyan has taken a
group since fighting re-kindled.

“I am waiting for my turn: when the time comes, I will go, too. And
now, good luck and safe return to all of them. Let no one be missing
from their ranks,” he says.

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[Joseph]

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25 years after “Ring” operation

14:54, 29 Apr 2016
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Today marks the 25thanniversary of the Ring operation (Operation
Koltso), as a result of which two villages in Artsakh were cleansed of
Armenians.

The operation “Ring,” launched by the special police detachments
(OMON) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, with the
support of the USSR Interior Ministry՛s troops in April-May, 1991
holds a peculiar place in the history of the conflict between
Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, both for its scope and consequences.

The operation resulted in a complete devastation and destruction of
more than two dozen villages of Northern Artsakh, as well as in
Shahumyan, Hadrut and Shushi regions. It ended only after a month,
thanks to wide publicity and condemnation both within the USSR and
beyond.

But the wheels of the war were set in motion. The operation “Ring”,
which stood out by its brutality and massive violations of human
rights, sharply increased the level of tension in the region and
shifted the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict to a plane of military
actions, becoming a prelude to the subsequent full-scale aggression of
Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh.

However, Azerbaijan failed to achieve its main goal – to intimidate
the population of Nagorno-Karabakh and suppress their legitimate
aspirations for self-determination. On the contrary, the operation
“Ring” only strengthened the determination of the people of Artsakh to
fight for their rights and freedoms.

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[burjuin]

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Frontline: the Story of the Soldiers and Azeri Aggression
2016-04-5

[haydavid]

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[Haykakan]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

I think we should consider Iran as a source for weapons. We should also learn from their achievements in self sufficiency. Working together we can compliment each others production of military goods and trade.

[armnuke]

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I think we should consider Iran as a source for weapons. We should also learn from their achievements in self sufficiency. Working together we can compliment each others production of military goods and trade.

Donno why we dont. It's right across the border.

[AstalaVist]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Donno why we dont. It's right across the border.

We don't want to make West angry. Thats why.