Samvel Babayan: a Well-Known Figure in Armenia and NKR

• 06.03.2016, 17:20
•  NKR,  Info

After the April war the name of the former commander of the NKR Defense Army, NKR ex-Defense Minister, and Lieutenant-General Samvel Babayan started to be actively circulated in Armenia and Artsakh. He had already come up with a rather intriguing interview that has brought a bunch of contradictory and ambiguous reactions - in Armenia, Atsakh and Azerbaijan. "I came back to be with my people and talk about what I know," said Babayan, introducing not only his own assessments about the April four-day war, but also made a number of proposals that could improve the defense capability of the NKR.

Samvel Babayan is a well-known figure in Armenia and NKR. Being one of the founders of the Karabakh army, he was a talented military leader, who after the war concentrated in his hands political power also. 

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Samvel Babayan was born in Stepanakert in 1965. Military, state and political figure, Lieutenant-General (1996), Artsakh hero (1997). In 1989-1991 he was one of the commanders of the underground armed resistance in Artsakh, commanded the 2nd Volunteers Company in Stepanakert, and was a deputy commander of the NKR self-defense forces. During the operation "Ring" was arrested under the pretext of violation of the passport regime and was kept in Baku prison. In 1992-1993 was one of the leaders of NKR armed forces, participated in the planning of Shushi liberation. From November 1993 to December 1999 was the commander of the NKR Defense Army, on behalf of the NKR signed the agreement of ceasefire between NKR, Armenia and Azerbaijan.