PEOPLE REMEBER VAZGEN SARGSYAN
Support A1+!March 5 is Vazgen Sargsyan’s birthday. Today the Erablur was overcrowded; representatives of various parties and RA high-ranking officials assembled near Vazgen Sargsyan’s tomb. It is already nine years since Vazgen Sargsyan died. Every year his friends, acquaintances, relatives, and adherents assemble in the Erablur on March 5.
53-year-old Emma Chobanyan often visits Vazgen Sargsyan’s tomb. “He was a real Armenian, a real patriot. The Armenians will never have Vazgens. Our hearts will be restless unless the criminals of the October 27 carnage are punished”, she says.
The RA Defense Ministry, Prime Minister, “Yerkrapah” Volunteers’ group, Manvel Grigoryan, head of the board of “Yerkrapah” Volunteers’ Union, as well as various parties put wreaths on the tomb. The representatives of the general headquarters of the RA armed forces were also in the Erablur.
Michael Haroutyunyan, head of the general headquarters, underlined that fact that “Vazgen Sargsyan laid the bases of everything Armenia has nowadays. It is due to his inexhaustible energy and assiduity that we have efficient troops today. If I say now that the army has not problems I shall make a grave mistake; we counter great problems that demand serious treatment. For instance, we must do our utmost to make the RA army meet the regional and international standards”, says Mr. Haroutyunyan.
Armen Sargsyan, one of Vazgen Sargsyan’s friends remembers, “Vazgen Sargsyan sought romanticism in all his steps and he found it. He wished Armenia were a powerful state, having great culture and good specialists. He was a great Armenian and his sole objective was to see Armenia united.”
