Thursday, March 24, 2005

I’m not sure who the source of these rumors are, but if there were 13 Armenian casualties, everyone here would be talking about it.

Reality is that there were three soldiers who were killed, one of who I knew of named Saribek from the village of Sos, in the Martuni region.

Rest assured, there is no mobilization of troops at this time and the statement from the NKR Defense Ministry is accurate.

Armenian Defense Ministry denies rumors of mobilization

A1+ web site
23 Mar 05


Society fears that mobilization started in the republic after the recent developments on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Even young men under 30, who have already served in the army, are afraid to go out.

The press secretary of the Armenian defense minister, Seyran Shakhsuvaryan, denied rumors that are going around the city about the mobilization. He also denied that dozens had been killed in Karabakh or on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

According to the information we possess, the last skirmish on the border resulted in 13 Armenian casualties. Seyran Shakhsuvaryan denied this and said that three soldiers had been killed in the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic [NKR]. This has already been reported by the NKR Defense Ministry.

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