Scapegoats of Armenian PM’s wife

The Armenian media and experts have been wondering for several days about the reasons that prompted the government led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to deal with the Armenian generals.

The information has gone viral this week that the Armenian Investigative Committee filed charges against the former commanders of the Armenian occupying army in Karabakh Mikael Arzumanyan and Jalal Harutyunyan.

Arzumanyan replaced Commander of the occupying contingent Harutyunyan on October 27 after his predecessor was wounded in an attack by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

One of the most alleged reasons was unveiled by the journalists of the Hraparak newspaper.

The journalists said that Pashinyan took up Arzumanyan and Harutyunyan out of revenge. Both generals during the 44-day second Karabakh war entered into a skirmish with the common-law wife of the Armenian prime minister Anna Hakobyan, who was in the bunker in Khankendi.

Both generals made rude remarks about Hakobyan.

Moreover, Arzumanyan and Harutyunyan also made rude remarks about Pashinyan. The former head of the Armenian National Security Service Argishti Kyaramyan, who was secretly supervising the generals and leaders of the separatists during the war in Karabakh, immediately reported about these remarks to the prime minister.

According to Hraparak, as Arzumanyan and Harutyunyan cannot be charged with insulting Anna Hakobyan, Pashinyan decided to make them scapegoats for Armenia’s defeat in the 44-day Karabakh war.