Armen Petrosyan: The landing force of the current government has been injecting velvet poison into the people of Artsakh for years

The landing force of the current government was injecting velvet poison into the people of Artsakh, trying to change their way of thinking, Armen Petrosyan, the executive board member of the Artsakh Justice Party, told Alpha News.

“If you remember, Vazgen Sargsyan once said that the people of Artsakh should be feared when 200,000 homeless people of Artsakh appear on the streets of Yerevan with weapons. But the time factor is of great importance here. Preparation work was done for this situation, and that work was done not only by the Armenian government. The blockade and social issues have exhausted the people. In addition, in Artsakh there was also the landing force of the current authorities that was injecting this velvet poison into the people, trying to change their way of thinking. Unfortunately, they succeeded.

Today, there are Artsakh citizens on the streets of Yerevan who smile as if they have not lost their homeland. These are the people who welcomed the revolution and tried to bring it to Artsakh. Those people do not have problems with employment and housing; they do not have financial problems and they were the first to leave Artsakh. I used to say that we do not have to wait for 2025 because the exodus of Artsakh citizens will happen earlier, and there is no need to blame foreign forces for that. A foreigner never betrays; your own people betray you,” Petrosyan said.

He notes with regret that a period will come when neither the Artsakh dialect nor its distinctiveness will be preserved.

“When I met Zhanna Andreasyan in Artsakh, I raised a question, saying that my son’s name is Nzhdeh. I asked if it is possible that, after some time, the government will put my son in trouble because of his name.

I noticed that schools teach that boys should not be named Nzhdeh or Monte because they are the names of aggressors. And this is what the teacher of one of the Yerevan schools says. All this is white genocide, and unfortunately, after a few generations, neither our dialect nor our distinctiveness will be preserved,” Petrosyan concluded.