Armenian News - Tert.am
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11:03 Aug 30, 2024
Every day, thoughts of Bako, Ruben, Leva, and our prisoners overwhelm me with helplessness. My mind always returns to Bako, perhaps because I knew him better. In my memory, he sits in his yard after midnight, feeding firewood to a tin stove where potatoes, onions, and bread are baking. He squints through the tobacco smoke, adjusts his old coat, and sips strong tea. We often met—once in Rome, quite frequently in Yerevan, but most often in Stepanakert. That’s where I remember him best—sitting in the yard of his house, on the ottoman, telling stories, joking, or sitting in thoughtful silence. He was organic, natural, strong—unable to imagine his life away from this garden, his home, Stepanakert, and Artsakh, - wrote Mikayel Minasyan, the former Ambassador of Armenia to the Holy See, wrote about his esteemed friend, Bako Sahakyan, the former President of Artsakh, who is currently held captive in a Baku prison following Azerbaijan's occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh. Minasyan adds. “I can't imagine what he knows abou...