Their goal is to desecrate our pure goals - Colonel Makhsudyan

ArmInfo.  Retired Colonel Migran Makhsudyan called the charges brought against him and the participants of the Sacred Struggle movement "fabricated and false." He wrote about this in a letter from the pretrial detention center.

"I received the hardest blows in my life in my youth, when I lost my  father, grandfather, and brother on the battlefield. They, like many  Armenians, built our independence and statehood with their blood.  I  have dedicated my entire life to my homeland, my land, and my water.  For thirty years, both on the battlefield and in peacetime, I have  fought the enemy and am ready to fight until my last breath for our  country and people.

The charges brought against me and my comrades in the struggle these  days are fabricated and false. Their goal is to desecrate our pure  goals and discredit our ideological struggle. But the truth will  prevail sooner or later," he wrote.

Makhsudyan called on society to be united and resilient.

Recall that on June 25, after large-scale searches, Archbishop Bagrat  Galstanyan was arrested. Igor Sargsyan, Hrayr Hakobyan, David  Galstyan, Movses Sharbatyan, Arsen Kazaryan, Ara Rostomyan, Tigran  Galstyan, Migran Makhsudyan, Karo Okumushyan, Aghvan Arshakyan, Armen Aleksanyan, Lidiya Mantashyan, Tigran Topalyan, Hayk Shahnazaryan, Armen Israelyan and Vahagn Chakhalyan were detained along with him. According to the Investigative Committee, the detainees are suspected of preparing an armed seizure of power, organizing terrorist attacks and mass riots.