“Not a single victory passes without a trace”
Members of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) led by Armenia's First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan today laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in Victory Park. On May 9, the opposition activists visited the park to commemorate the victims of the Great Patriotic War.
"May 9 is the day of educating children, maintaining fortitude and preparing for new victories," said Aram Manukyan, Board chairman of the Armenian National Movement (HHSh).
"About 600,000 Armenians participated in the Great Patriotic War. 380,000 of them were killed in the war. Their descendants fought for the liberation of Shushi. It means that not a single victory passes without a trace, it becomes basis for future victories," said Mr. Manukyan.
"The only thing that cannot be healed"
On the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the liberation of Shushi, the Armenian National Congress (HAK) headed by Armenia's First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan visited the Yerablur Pantheon to pay tribute to the memory of freedom fighters who were killed during the Karabakh war.
Aram Bareghamyan, a former political prisoner and participant and freedom fighter, says the Day of Shushi Liberation is not celebrated in due order in Armenia.
"The holiday was somehow neglected after the 1998 upheaval," Bareghamyan told A1+.
"Time is the most powerful weapon capable of recovering the situation. The only thing that cannot be healed or recovered is the March 2008 unrest which left ten people killed and many injured," said the freedom fighter whose primary goal was to see the other political prisoners in freedom before the glorified holiday.
