War participant recalls how she cheated her mother for leaving for the front (video)
“It was the end of 1991 and the beginning of 1992 when I watched on TV, that a soldier with a wounded foot died, as there were no professional doctors. On the next day I went to the Ministry of Health and said that I wanted to leave for the front and asked them to send me and I was sent for two months,” tells Aida Serobyan, participant of Artsakh War, Chairwoman of “Artsakh war participant women” public organization, in the interview with “A1+”. After 2 months, the Minister of Health of Artsakh prolonged her stay up to 4 months and then 6 months. “Later, when the actual war started, I understood that I couldn’t leave and return. I sent a telegram to Avan number 12 polyclinic and informed that the situation was very hard, I couldn’t return, I asked them to maintain the position and stayed until the end of the war,” recalls Mrs. Aida. The latter also tells how she cheated her mother for leaving for the front. “When I was to leave for Martakert in two days on helicopter, I was thinking what to say to my mother. On the way home I was thinking what to say, but when I reached home and my mother opened the door, I said mechanically that I had been sent to Jermuk sanatorium and that I had to go. My mother was very happy, she gave me a cup and said, “My girl, besides work, go and drink healthful water of Jermuk.” I was happy. I took the cup my mother had given to me and left for Martakert. Mrs. Aida, who was wounded during Artsakh battle for four times, tells stories, which happened during the war. She recalls liberation of Omar mountain pass in 1993, which, according to her words, was the most impassable and the coldest mountain pass. “It was awful in Omar mountain pass, and not only as there weren’t trench and shelter for soldiers, no means of heating, we were standing on those turns, it was 45 degrees below zero, our eyelashes were frozen, pieces of ice were hanging from mustaches of the men. I remember, when the Azerbaijani mortars started firing and we were lying on the ground; they were firing for 15-20 minutes and we were lying on the ground, then when a soldier was wounded and I rose in order to aid, during that time snow under my breast had melted and froze. When I rose, some pieces from my clothes remained on the ice,” she tells. Aida Serobyan singles out her “Mother's Gratitude to the Heroes of Artsakh” medal among her other medals and awards. “It is the first medal of Artsakh. I was awarded it in 1992 in the battlefield, it is my first medal made of shell fragments collected during Shushi bombardment,” notes Mrs. Serobyan.
