"We taught children to beat Turks in schools, kidnapped Azerbaijanis" Stew thief Manvel Grigoryan's archived revelations

Canadian-based blogger Albert Isakov presented a video with the late General Manvel Grigoryan, a war criminal who commanded the Armenian occupation forces that captured Jabrayil and Fuzuli during the First Karabakh War. Grigoryan was particularly cruel towards Azerbaijani captives.

In the archival video footage, Grigoryan talks about how he and a group of fighters from Armenia ended up in Karabakh, in Armenian-populated villages near Hadrut, and what he did there with children and their parents in 1988-1989. In this video, Grigoryan tells with all his brazen, unprincipled frankness how the Dashnaks incited the interethnic conflict in Karabakh and taught the children to "beat the Turks" (Armenians call the Azerbaijanis Turks as well). According to him, he and his accomplices came to Karabakh with the specific purpose of igniting the flames of interethnic conflict.

"We went to Karabakh, to Hadrut. We stayed like this for a few days, like in quarantine. Then they started distributing us among the villages. We ended up in the village of Khirmanjig. Our units started to work, to act there. Before we got used to it, we reached Dudukchi, and then we found people and so on. It's clear that in some places people [local Armenians] didn't understand us from the beginning, they didn't even accept us. "Why you came here, creating unrest, we are friends with Azerbaijanis," they said, and so on. There were people who did not understand. They were afraid, they did not believe that it was possible to separate from the Turks, they did not believe because there was no such thing. Ordinary people had no idea - how it would be to live without the Turks, how the Turks would allow it, let it go, and all that. These were the difficulties and obstacles we faced back then.

Turks would come to their Armenian acquaintances and say: these are our friends. They ate at their houses and drank with them. We visited many such houses in the village of Khirmanjig, Turks came there from the neighboring village, and their acquaintances came to their homes, ate there, and drank vodka. And they, the local Armenians, did nothing. But that didn't suit us. And we started putting up obstacles. We even kidnapped Azerbaijanis on the road, beat them up, and frightened them not to visit Armenians anymore.

Both Armenians and Turks studied together at the Aghbulag village school. It was a big school. We had to work with the youth, with the children, so they would beat the Turks at school and make fights with them. We created difficulties and obstacles for Turks to prevent them from coming here so easily. We began to stir things up in the schools, to get the children into fights, to separate them from each other.

Armenia was directly in touch with us 24 hours a day. Then there were committees and other things, there were people, those who worked with these units," Grigoryan stated.

He also revealed in detail the scheme of the mass involvement of Armenians from Yerevan in the fomentation of the Karabakh conflict.

"A large group came from Yerevan, students, or rather, teachers who had just graduated from the university, there was such a group, they came as teachers. It is clear that during the day they were teaching, girls and boys were there, and at night they were ready soldiers. One group of people who came was the Fidaeen military, and the other group of people who came were graduates, young guys, this gave us an advantage because they worked as teachers, they interacted with both the children and their parents. They introduced us to the children there properly, they passed our knowledge on to them," Grigoryan said.

He admitted that the methods of ethnic hatred stirred up by the Yerevan provocateurs were often not accepted by the adult Armenians living in Karabakh, but the children were fertile ground.

"At one point, people started to chase us away themselves. But we started using serious methods. The people who came from Yerevan started to use 14-15-year-old children in a completely different way, army style. Then the idea emerged that it was possible to work with children.

And today 90 per cent of the people I'm talking about are serving in the Armenian army and became generals or high-ranking servicemen, the same 14-15-year-olds. We started taking them to us, bringing them to the forests, not even letting them go home, started giving them serious weapons, taught them how to shoot. I don't want to mention the names, if I do, we would be talking about 10 or 20 thousand people.

Anyway, we began to keep them in the forests, we wouldn't let them go back home, and the parents went up into the mountains, they began to negotiate with us, it's clear that they wanted to take the children back. We said: take them back! But we knew the children wouldn't go! In the end, they realized that there was no way out, that the children obeyed us more than their own parents," Manvel Grigoryan said.

His words are an indicator of how the Dashnaks of Yerevan were inciting the conflict in Karabakh, and how they cultivated hatred among the local youth towards Azerbaijanis, with whom the Karabakh Armenians used to live amicably and peacefully. The result of this was the forcible expulsion of Azerbaijanis from Karabakh and 7 other regions of Azerbaijan, accompanied by brutality and genocide against Azerbaijani civilians. As a result of the 44-day war, the Azerbaijani Army defeated the invaders and liberated our lands.

They say that there is no escape from karma - although Grigoryan was never convicted for his war crimes in Karabakh. Nevertheless, after the change of power in Armenia, he was arrested when the huge scale of corruption and theft of the general was revealed. Since then, he has been nicknamed Manvel The Stew. In November 2020, he passed away, but in the meantime, he saw the collapse of his entire ideology - Azerbaijan defeated Armenia and forced it to capitulate.