If an agreement is reached in Astana…
Member of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) Vazgen Sislyan is hopeful that the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will not sign a document on Karabakh in Astana.
"If an agreement is reached in Astana, people will take up arms and go to the street. The authorities are carrying out an antinational policy. We have not occupied these lands, we have liberated them. It is our Homeland," Vazgen Sislyan told A1+.
On September 24, 1981, four ASALA members - Vazgen Sislyan, Aram Pasmachyan, Hakob Julfayan and Gevorg Kyuzelyan - seized the Turkish Consulate in Paris and held it for 15 hours. The four men were arrested and sent to prison.
After his release in 1990, Sislyan arrived in Armenia, and participated in the war for the liberation of Artsakh. Five years ago, the members of the Armenian Secret Army created the organization "Vow of Ararat."
Vazgen Sislyan says many young people in Armenia today do not have the fighting spirit, which guided ASALA members.
"Artsakh is liberated today, but we do not feel its owners," he said.
Vazgen Sislyan is surprised at the existence of political prisoners in Armenia.
"The authorities think that Armenia is their shop but it is not so," he said.
