Media: Kocharyan leaked info to Baku, causing death of Armenian soldiers

Minval Politika has published an account of a previously unknown episode from the First Karabakh War, saying that former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, who at the time headed a separatist administration, organised a leak of information to the Azerbaijani side.

As a result of the leak, around 100 Armenian servicemen were caught in a fatal trap and subsequently killed by Azerbaijani forces, Caliber.Az reports.

"During 1992–1993, amid one of the operations on the Aghdara–Kalbajar direction, disagreements arose between Kocharyan and Armenia’s Ministry of Defence. At that time, Kocharyan, to prove his position and indispensability, created conditions in which around 100 Armenian servicemen were encircled by Azerbaijani forces and subsequently destroyed. Moreover, he arranged in advance for this information to be leaked to the Azerbaijani side. The man who, for the sake of power, shot up parliament and, to retain it, carried out the March massacre of his own citizens, during the occupation war against Azerbaijan, did not hesitate to sacrifice ‘his own people’,” the publication wrote.

By Bakhtiyar Abbasov