my name is uh hike nazarian i'm a u.s
citizen
i was born and raised in the united
states uh but i decided to move out here
to armenia four years ago in 2000
what was it 16 i came out here
and um you know for patriotic reasons
i've always considered myself you know
more
armenian than an american and uh
what can i say actually came after the
events of the april war
in 2016. that's what like really
motivated me
and that's when i decided to come out
here
and um and i knew actually this whole
conflict i knew it wasn't going to end
with just the april ward and a lot of
people were saying
oh you know the it's not going to happen
nothing's going to happen everything's
good it's going to
be resolved peacefully i knew deep down
inside that wasn't true so i knew
another war was going to break out and i
wanted to be here
because of it i wanted to be here be
ready for it
and lo and behold you know that's what
happened
and um i enlisted the war started on the
27th of september i uh enlisted on the
29th
you know deep down aside you know before
even going to the war
before even like telling bye to my dad i
knew deep down outside that
something was going to happen like some
type of treason was going to happen so
i even told my father i go like you know
what um
i'll go i'll do my duty i'll do whatever
i have to do but
i just hope these you know people these
politicians
don't stab us in the back and uh i'm
sorry i don't have to look at you or the
camera i'm like
i don't know which one it is anyways uh
so i told him that
and you know when i went uh it's kind of
a long story i don't know if i
if i have to go through all that well
you you fought you fought in the war
yeah yeah
what was your experience like okay yeah
so
it was it was kind of like a kind of a
shock to me first of all like
it all just happened so suddenly but i
um
i went to the what do you call the
you know wherever they recruit the
people i went voluntarily no one called
me
so i just went i got you know i already
had my uniform i got my bags everything
packed and ready
because i told you i knew this was going
to happen so i went
and then they took me to hot as a region
in martaker
in the northern part so we went with the
south road
the one to uh through because the
route with to with bartenis was closed
because the hazards were bombing that
part
anyway so it took us about 12 hours we
got there
and it was uh
you know i was just surprised a lot of
people didn't really take it seriously
you know a lot of the soldiers a lot of
the people who came voluntarily at first
because they thought
it was going to be like another four or
five day war and a ceasefire after
and they were killed that they just you
know went to the
zinc home wherever they you know
volunteers went with like
civilian clothing not prepared at all
they didn't even have like a bag with
them
like emergency clothes or anything so
that was kind of a shocker to me when at
first
because i was the only one prepared and
anyways
the guys were getting their equipment
they were getting whatever they needed
and just we went they took us to
they took us to the post right after you
know that's when they started bombing
the villages
the first two three weeks was kind of
hectic i mean
because those posts the the outpost
wherever we
you know station on the front line yeah
on the front lines
they're not meant for 40 people you know
they're only meant for like
10 to 15 people because they're
increased time that's how many people
are at the post
like maximum so to rearrange everything
for 40 people to actually stay there um
it was kind of difficult but that's why
the first three weeks was tough plus
uh the bombings were tense there were
all there was a lot of
mortars cannons and pretty much tanks
all three of those were mostly used in
our region
the positive thing about it was we were
in a mountainous area
so any soldiers that tried to even
get close or like gunned down you know
they didn't have a chance to even
get to the post because that's why most
of the
tension most of the hard battles happen
on the
south side because yeah flat terrain
over
our part was near the kharbachar the
turks called it
anyways it was just a difficult
experience you know of course but i had
previous experience because i served as
a contract soldier
in 2017 so for like eight months
six months it was like uh i was at the
front line in davos
albus region i just wanted to have some
experience
in the
so you were a contract soldier i was a
contract soldier before
entering the war but in armenia yeah but
when i entered the war
voluntarily i wasn't the contract
soldier and it was a little complicated
story but uh uh so you mean a contract
soldier you were enlisted
in the army yeah yeah i just have some
experience okay okay
anyways it was just the war i knew this
war uh let me just sum it up for a lot
of people you know this war
it was bound to happen but um
if these as if they were so certain they
were going to win this war fair and
square
they would have started a long time ago
they wouldn't have
waited for some type of coup d'etat to
happen
and put putting someone like a puppet in
a
position of power in armenia to hand
over the land
to basically stab the army in the back
that's exactly what happened
you know if there was no treason if
there was no snap
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a lot of people say by the help of the
cia
or england or whatever whatever the case
may be he was there for a certain reason
that coup d'etat happened for a certain
reason because
former president sarah sarkisian he
wasn't bowing down to ali
in the art of issue the new video
started circulating about lukashenko the
president of belarus
giving uh trying to persuade
sarah sarkisson to hand over the lands
the seven regions so called for five
billion dollars
luka shrinkel was like talking as the
middle man and
it's funny he he said no basically he
declined the offer
and a lot of people now are saying that
they brought someone in
who accepted that deal and you think
what percentage of the population
in armenia do you think is for or
against passion
well i think most people are i guess but
the problem here
and i'll say the overwhelming majority
is against them this is the problem here
is that a lot of those people are also
against
the opposition of nikola pushing yeah
that's but it's kind of hypocritical
those people they say that oh okay yeah
we hate nick
we hate nicole we want him out but we
don't want
like the formers to come back you know
who's gonna they say who's gonna replace
nicole
you know they always bring up that
excuse but why didn't they bring up that
excuse
in 2018 whenever they were trying to
overthrow search they never
they never said okay who's going to
replace serge they didn't even do
research to see who that guy was you
know
to see his history to look at his
biography he did it they did absolutely
nothing yeah
he just put him in yeah and pushing it
back in 2001 in his newspapers wrote
that the seven regions he doesn't even
consider part of armenians
he just considered it uh other people
land that's what he said
so this was all just a one big
conspiracy i mean uh
this was we fought this war basically to
lose when we were stabbing back
everything was done
after the coup d'etat in 2018 everything
was done
for us to lose this war steps were taken
measures were taken for us to lose and
that's what
that's exactly what happened all right
well
thank you very much so that was a hike
a american armenian
who moved as you heard from the united
states
and he has fought in this latest uh
armenia azerbaijan war
uh it's just a little quick interview we
did i have a feeling we're gonna meet
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