journalist Tatul Hakobyan published a new piece about “Sarkhan the Spy” and the “surrender” of Nagorno-Karabakh leaders to Azerbaijan during the September 2023 ethnic cleansing

Regular readers of Transcaucasian Telegraph recall the context about the accused spy Sargis "Sarkhan" Galstyan from July 12 report. Tatul Hakobyan in the latest article:

FATHER: The abduction/surrender of the Artsakh leadership was largely ignored against the background of the tragic events of 2023. Under what conditions and where were they arrested/kidnapped?

There is an impression that it is the concern of not harming the prisoners that forces everyone not to speak about this, which is taken advantage of by the "patriotic" theater actors in Yerevan who carried out a coup in Artsakh, accelerating the depopulation and loss of Artsakh.

It is known that [Nagorno-Karabakh official] Davit Babayan surrendered himself to Azerbaijan in Shushi at the request of the coup plotters. That was one of the sacrifices to save the skin of the actors who are playing the patriotic theater in Yerevan today. //

The "coup plotters" Tatul is referring to are the pro-Russian opposition forces who hijacked power in Nagorno-Karabakh last year. You may recall that one of the members of this camp, a Serj-era Parliament Speaker Ara Babloyan, wrote a letter to Ilham Aliyev on September 29. Here is the letter:

BABLOYAN: I’m writing this letter as a professional doctor who has saved many lives including hundreds of Azeri children. You promised to grant an amnesty in exchange for surrendering weapons and dissolving Nagorno-Karabakh’s state institutions. The Nagorno-Karabakh government has complied. The population is leaving and you’re soon going to have all the territories. I hope you will keep your word and issue an amnesty. //

Back to journalist Tatul Hakobyan, recalling the arrest of other Armenians currently held in Baku prisons…

FATHER: It is known that two of the Armenians who were illegally abducted by Azerbaijan were trying to enter Armenia as part of the refugee flow. It is also known where [ex-President] Arayik Harutyunyan was kidnapped from.

Yet there is absolutely no mention of who urged Arkadi Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan [other ex-Presidents] to leave the airport, where they were staying with the Russians, and to go to a private house in Stepanakert, where the Azerbaijani special services simply came and kidnapped them.

Was it not a planned handover between the coup plotters and the authorities of Azerbaijan, by which those who handed over Armenians to Azerbaijanis were given the opportunity to be evacuated from the Stepanakert airport to Armenia? //

Context: You may recall the surprise in Armenia when people saw the post-coup president Shahramanyan and a group of other elites crossing into Armenia safely.

Back to Tatul…

FATHER: These are questions the answers of which must be provided by the participants of this immoral deal with Azerbaijan, by those who are in Yerevan and talking about the collective return to Artsakh.

Sargis "Sarkhan" Galstyan’s topic remains taboo. An ugly propaganda campaign was launched against me by the Serj-Kocharyan-HHK-patriotic forces and a couple of journalists/MPs who were once part of Pashinyan’s camp but have since left it, after I wrote that Sargis Sarkhan Galstyan, a close friend and relative of Shahramanyan and Bako Sahakyan, was appointed by Aliyev regime as the commandant of Stepanakert.

Now that it’s been OFFICIALLY confirmed that Azerbaijan offered Sargis Galstyan a title, and that simultaneously Shahramanyan appointed Galstyan as his deputy chief of staff, Galstyan suddenly has no one to defend him. Those who were publicly scolding me, have turned mum.

But that’s not what’s important. Here is what’s important:

(1) Why did Sargis Galstyan agree to remain in Stepanakert, which he calls "Khankendi" [the Azeri name] in his private conversations?

(2) What was the task before him?

(3) Why did he fail to carry out the task?

(4) Why did he decide to move to Armenia after staying in depopulated Artsakh for several months?

(5) Didn’t he expect to get arrested in Armenia upon moving here, and couldn’t he ask his Azerbaijani protectors to transfer him to a third country?

(6) What were the roles of coup plotters and Russians in that process?

There are many questions, yet there is a սրբազան sacred silence on this subject. //

The "holy" is a reference to the ongoing pro-Russian protests led by Bagrat Archbishop Galstanyan and Armenia’s ex-regime.

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My source: https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/1e7e3t5/who_traded_karabakh_leaders_with_baku_macron_on/