Report on the circumstances of the 44-day war – a folder with compromising materials in the hands of Andranik Kocharyan

It has been almost 4 years since the 44-day war ended, and the commission investigating the circumstances of the 2020 war has been operating for more than 2 years. To this day, the results of its work have not been presented, despite the fact that back in the summer, the head of the commission, Andranik Kocharyan, said that the preparation of the report had reached the final stage.

The Armenian media has repeatedly commented on this topic. So today, an article appeared in one of the newspapers, from which we learned that Andranik Kocharyan not only has not published this report but also has not yet addressed the President of the National Assembly to organize a meeting on this topic.

Of course, it is absurd that the government, which brought the negotiation process on Karabakh to a standstill, failed to govern the state during the 44-day war, and later surrendered Artsakh to Azerbaijan, can investigate the events of this war, but this is what we have. Moreover, regardless of the results of this investigation, it is already clear that after the political changes in Armenia, this issue will need to be investigated again.

The need for a new investigation is also confirmed by the fact that the signals coming from the authorities indicate that the investigation itself and the huge array of documents that formed the basis of the commission’s report have become nothing more than political capital in the hands of Andranik Kocharyan himself.

The capital that he will use at the moment when he feels threatened. The report of the Commission investigating the circumstances of the 44-day war of 2020 has turned into a “political shield” for Andranik Kocharyan in his current confrontation with Nikol Pashinyan.

As you know, a crisis emerged in the ruling faction after the recent hearings in the National Assembly, when the heads of the Armenian special services were detained and a group of MPs, united by Andranik Kocharyan, dismissed Justice Minister Grigor Minasyan. Not only ordinary members of the Civil Contract Party are dissatisfied with Kocharyan. Nikol Pashinyan cannot help but understand that he himself may become a victim of the intrigues of the head of the permanent parliamentary commission on security issues. It is the reason for the attacks of the members of the Civil Contract Party on Kocharyan. If we see this, then Andranik Kocharyan himself understands it, and therefore he can use the report on the circumstances of the 44-day war in his bargain with the head of the executive branch, hinting to the government and its head that the report may “not meet their expectations.”

It is obvious that we are dealing with classic, but no less vile and immoral in its essence political bargaining where, on the one hand, stands the main architect of the surrender of Artsakh, and on the other hand, a man with ambitions exceeding his current political status, a man who does not shy away from making a political career on “corpses” (remember the involvement of Andranik Kocharyan in the processes after October 27, 1999, in the processes after March 1, 2008).

As a result, the document that was supposed to become the basis of our state and national “correction of mistakes” turned into a folder with compromising materials in the hands of people who themselves are responsible for the tragedies of 2020, 2023 and 2008.

Think about it…