It Is Difficult to Explain to People That Their Sons Died for Future Peace – Pashinyan

“In the logic of war, I want to say the following: we should never forget, conditionally speaking, the first blood factor, when there is a casualty somewhere, blood has been shed. This is a very deep psychological, social, public, and political moment,” Prime Minister Pashinyan said in an interview with Euronews.

“Look, we are talking about the mother of a fallen soldier; imagine how obviously important a factor that is, which you have made a topic of discussion in our conversation. But before or after that, there can be a question: if you are making such concessions or compromises now, what were our children killed for? And no one has the answer to that question; no one can answer it, ever. Sometimes it is very difficult to even approach solutions, compromises, decisions that may, at their core, imply that the people who died before did so in vain. That problem exists and is never from one place or one side,” Pashinyan noted.

According to Pashinyan, this question is placed on any political figure's table: “Even if a person understands the necessity of preventing casualties in the future, he always knows that he must also get an answer to the second question: why did those who died before die, then was that sacrifice meaningless? So, were politicians simply leading those people to their deaths without any reason, significance, content, purpose, or mission in all this? And it is very difficult to explain to people that their son or daughter died for the sake of future peace. How can you explain to a person that one can die for peace when our whole aim is peace?” Pashinyan said.