Vitaly Balasanjan

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Vitaly Balasanjan, 2012

Vitali Balasanjan ( Armenian Վիտալի Բալասանյան ; born March 5, 1959 in Askeran ( Azerbaijani Əsgəran ), Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region , Azerbaijani SSR , USSR ) is a retired Armenian major general from the breakaway province of Nagorno-Karabakh and a former military commander of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 1990 .

Life

Balasanjan graduated from the general education school in Askeran in 1976. From 1977 to 1979 he did his military service in the Soviet army . In 1990 he graduated from the cooperative business school and in 2011 the University of Economics in Erewan .

With the intensification of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Balasanjan took the helm of one of the paramilitary Armenian units in the city of Askeran in 1988 . In 1990 he was promoted to commander of the Armenian separatist militias in the entire Askeran province.

In December 1991 Balasanjan was elected to the parliament of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (RB, today Arzach ). He played a crucial role in the annexation and destruction of the Azerbaijani city of Agdam , which lies outside the administrative borders in the east of the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

In 1999 Balasanjan was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense of the RB and held this position until his resignation in 2005. In 2000 he was promoted to major general.

In 2005 Balasanjan was elected to the National Assembly of the RB. There he represented the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation .

In 2012, Balasanjan ran for the post of head of state in the internationally unrecognized presidential elections in the RB. With 32.5 percent of the votes received, he ended up behind the winner Bako Sahakjan .

Opinions

At a press conference on October 15, 2019, Balasanyan made an admission that it was Azerbaijanis who were the first to suffer from the aftermath of the rekindling conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the late 1980s. On February 22, 1988, two Azerbaijanis were killed by armed Armenians on the way from Aghdam to Stepanakert . After more than 30 years, Balasanjan admitted to having shot them himself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ПРЕСС-КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ: на вопросы читателей ответит депутат парламента НКР, герой Арцаха Виталий Бяналий Бянаха September 2, 2012, Retrieved November 6, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Баласанян Виталий Микаелович. In: Кавказский Узел. May 18, 2012, Retrieved November 6, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Президентом непризнанного Нагорного Карабаха переизбран Бако Саакян. In: Newsru. July 20, 2012, Retrieved November 6, 2019 (Russian).
  4. ↑ «Герой арцаха» признался в убийстве двух мирных азербайджанцев. October 16, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Balasanjan, Vitali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Վիտալի Բալասանյան (Armenian); Əsgəran, Vitali (Azerbaijani)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian major general
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Askeran , Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region , Azerbaijani SSR , USSR