Armenian authorities have not so far revealed list of war victims -  ex-MP

ArmInfo. It is a great shame and an indelible stigma that, even five years after the 2020 war, the Armenian authorities have not presented or made public a  list of the victims of that war and subsequent tragedies. Former  National Assembly member Samvel Farmanyan wrote this on his Facebook  page.

"Political speculation regarding the number of casualties on the  Armenian side (the figure of 5,000 has been circulating in public  discourse and the press since the end of the war, with the  authorities insisting it is exaggerated) is the result of two simple  circumstances: first, the government has not published a list of  casualties; second, the public's first reaction to the words of Nikol  (RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan) and his government, not only on  this but on any topic, is doubt and skepticism. Many years ago, a  taxi driver summed it up beautifully: 'When Nikol greets you, first  check if it's already evening?'" the former MP wrote.

He also appealed to journalists to help bring final clarity to this  issue.

"On September 27, 2021, the RA authorities themselves announced that  the number of casualties of the 2020 war among those holding RA  citizenship was 3,781, with 283 of them missing. At the same time,  the then Artsakh authorities stated that 822 citizens of the NKR were  killed in the 2020 war, and 65 were listed as missing.

Considering the unfortunate fate of those missing in action, it turns  out that the total number of casualties on the Armenian side in the  2020 war alone was at least 4,951. While I'm not claiming this, I  have serious doubts that Nikol Pashinyan, in his immoral "+/- 50"  logic after the end of the war, intentionally included only the  number of victims with Armenian citizenship, and that this is the  root of his deception and manipulation. Meanwhile, the combined  number of victims with Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh citizenship is  precisely what is widely disseminated in our public discourse. Not  counting, of course, the 224 casualties during the Azerbaijani  invasion of 2022, and then the number of our casualties in Artsakh  during the September war in 2023, that is, the number of our  casualties in the wars unleashed by Nikol Pashinyan exceeds 5,000,  namely 5,074. I ask our journalists to help, clarify, and verify  whether the data for 2020 presented by Nikol and the government is  accurate. Did the statistics of war casualties also include victims  who were citizens of the NKR, or did he even discriminate against  them in terms of casualties? And are our casualties during the  Azerbaijani invasion of 2022 and the 2023 war included in these  "statistics" to which he and his government often refer? Let's simply  remain silent about the dozens of painful casualties we suffered in  peacetime and as a result of negligent governance," Farmanyan wrote.