ArmInfo. The inability to analyze facts and circumstances, wittingly or unwittingly, made social network users soldiers of the information war waged against the state bodies of Artsakh. Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures of Artsakh Hayk Khanumyan wrote about this on his Facebook page, commenting on the situation around Berdzor and Aghavno, which will come under the control of Azerbaijan in the coming days.
<Since the misinformation and targeted information attacks have gone too far, I will publish some facts. In mid-August, electricity in Aghavno was disconnected from the Berdzor substation, Aghavno and Berdzor began to receive electricity through the line coming from Stepanakert. A few days later, the fire burned the power poles and destroyed the newly laid line. Transformer oil was stolen in Berdzor. The fire that broke out in Berdzor created serious threats to the high-voltage power line running from Armenia to Artsakh. A fiber-optic cable was stolen in the Aghavno region, due to which there was no Internet in Artsakh for some time. Communication towers were looted and destroyed by scrap metal thieves," the minister said.
He continued that the authorities of the republic, state bodies urged not to set fire to houses, not to demolish, not to plunder the infrastructure. <Government agencies have more information and consider more circumstances when making decisions than Facebook activists. Unfortunately, information terror has significantly weakened the ability of state institutions to respond to challenges, which is one of the shortcomings of the management system. And as a result, it turns out that some renegade "activist" can take a taxi, come to Aghavno or Berdzor, set a fire there, and be more patriotic than employees of state institutions who ensure the smooth operation of infrastructures, live with their families in Artsakh, participated in war and participate daily in security decision-making. The inability to analyze facts and circumstances has made our social media users willingly or unwittingly soldiers of the information war waged against the state bodies of Artsakh>, Khanumyan wrote.
He added that at a time when disinformation and manipulation begin to play a big role, power ceases to exist.
<Even people who solve urgent problems can be destroyed overnight by a disinformation attack. In this case, the only way out is to strengthen the potential of state institutions, to strengthen the positions of state institutions. The war against these bodies, which we are witnessing these days, is a war against the authorities with the greatest organizational potential in Artsakh>, the Artsakh minister emphasized.