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GENEARATION CEASE-FIRE
Young people from neighboring villages reflect on two decades of relative peace
A childhood in the context of war, a party for graduates who never
held a strong desire to leave the darkness and humidity basements ...
the cease-fire as perpetual expectation of peace for a generation
bearing the imprint of war irreversible, incurable memories ...
"My father came and said that Shushi is released, then a cease-fire,
which for many children like me meant going out into the yard and
play, enjoy the sky and the sun," said Anahit Kartashyan 27 , who one
by one out the memories of warm and deep corners of his soul and
carefully arranged."As soon as the shootings were more intense, we
went down to the basement. Imagine us up and down four to five times a
day. At times, we lived there for days. But everyone was united and
close. We cooked and ate together. And children staged a show for
adults almost every day. "
Anahit roots lie in the border village of Chinari in the province of
Tavush (maternal side) and Aygedzor (from his father's side) and reach
up to his birthplace - the town of Berd, 10 kilometers from the
Armenian-Azerbaijani border, which have become theaters of war in the
early 1990s, and even today with regular violations of the cease-fire
that occur there.
Like all men of this region's father Anahit took up arms and protect
the borders of his country, and the mother of three children continued
to live in Berd, but Anahit may remember that the situation is more
serious when his father moved his family to Aygedzor, closer to the
border.
"Now I understand why: if your family is behind you, you will fight to
the last drop, no place for retirement. In my memory related to the
war, I can remember very well the hallway of our house with three
small bags containing our birth certificates and clothing essentials.
When the shooting were beginning we took our bags and waited for one
of the neighbors to come and help our mother we go down to the
basement. I still remember the panic on the stairs. I still hate the
panic. "
After attending kindergarten in the thunder of cannon and the school
as part of the "fire in the cease-fire" and later the Faculty of
Oriental Studies of the University of Yerevan State, Anahit is
currently a PhD at the Department of Oriental Studies of the State
University of St. Petersburg in Russia where it was sent from Yerevan
State University following an international university agreement.
While studying Anahit working away at the center of studies of
Armenian issues and Western Armenia.
"I live temporarily in Russia. As our Armenian students in St.
Petersburg often joked "I am an intellectual migrant worker," says
Anahit, two sisters and brother studying in Yerevan, but his parents
still live in Berd. "We use the opportunity to go to EBRD Aygedzor and
Chinari. Our commitment to Shamshadin is so strong and inexplicable.
This is not only a place of birth, this is the place where you are
yourself devoid of pretension. However exhausted and frustrated just
do a one-day visit is enough to return with new energy, because you
realize that you have much to do and not allowed to run out. "
In his opinion an ordinary resident of the border does not care much
about the chronology of the cease-fire, the parties in conflict and
the history of conflict, they need action. According to Anahit for any
survivor of the war a cease-fire is like air and water.
"If, for example, you dine with someone Shamshadin, the first toast is
for peace. The cease-fire was necessary for both sides, the question
is how we acted after the ceasefire and what are the lessons we have
learned. We had enough time to develop the border areas, but we have
not done anything worse, the population decreased and now we have what
we have.In border villages every day is an undeclared war. People have
become accustomed to it and their only request is social security,
"says Anahit adding that the state must take concrete steps to develop
border areas, must provide benefits for residents - lower taxes,
health care affordable and education, support for small and medium
enterprises, and especially employment opportunities, so that
university graduates do not have the obligation to leave for Russia
and Yerevan to find a job.
According to sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, research shows that the
generation born during the war cease-fire sees his future outside of
Armenia.
"The search for a better fortune abroad becomes a sore point, but half
of the generation grows to be patriots, we have put our hope in them,
not those who receive higher education and try to leave Armenia "said
Adibekyan.
War, fire, border, daily shootings, mined areas ... these words become
common to ear approach the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, while far from
the border, they are like phonemes heard in a movie . According to the
ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan, in general, there is no understanding
of the phenomenon of truce.
"In Armenia there is a feeling that everyone is talking about the war,
but it is not a reality, even the word fire is not in our lives, and
there is a feeling that people are not ready, I do not think this is
the best condition, "says Kharatyan.
Narine Vardanyan, born in the village of Nerkin Karmragyugh in 1994,
is well aware of the price of war and peace, and sometimes angry when
his peers born in the capital do not understand, can not imagine her
emotions and feelings when his hometown is under fire.
"Recently, a historian with a very serious face explained what a
cease-fire.Maybe he's right, that his moving speech, he would have had
to leave out the terms of the agreement, the documents, the
conflicting parties and would have then reality - we have reached a
cease- fire because of our men who fought, who fought and died. The
relative peace we have is not due to a piece of paper, it is because
of our struggle at the national level, "says a contemporary of the
cease-fire, which recalls the paper the agreement has not served its
purpose, which is proved by the fact that Comrade Narine boys are
always in danger every day protecting the border marked by their
fathers.
First year student at the Faculty of Journalism of Yerevan Narine has
almost no memory of his childhood, it is said that the day she was
born there there was a lot of snow, his father was before and during
the long time they could not find a car to take her mother work at the
regional center of EBRD, and when, finally, there was a car and they
reached the hospital, there was no electricity "We are a generation of
hard work and life with a miracle."
Student at Yerevan Narine says she dreams of her village, and she
hopes to put one of his hobbies, writing, serving to tell the world of
everyday life, history and heroes of his small village.
Narine tenderly packed clothes for a few days, candy bought for his
parents in the village to spend a weekend in the village with his
family.
"Go Yerevan to our village to me is the same as back home during a
break for a soldier. I look forward and I miss home and everyone more
day before you go ... Before I used to take some books with me, now I
leave books, lessons, college, everything here so as not to disturb
me.Furthermore, I return to Yerevan as a soldier returning after his
break - with difficulty and with a missing home, my real home. "
GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow
Sunday 1st June 2014,
Stéphane © armenews.com
Young people from neighboring villages reflect on two decades of relative peace
A childhood in the context of war, a party for graduates who never
held a strong desire to leave the darkness and humidity basements ...
the cease-fire as perpetual expectation of peace for a generation
bearing the imprint of war irreversible, incurable memories ...
"My father came and said that Shushi is released, then a cease-fire,
which for many children like me meant going out into the yard and
play, enjoy the sky and the sun," said Anahit Kartashyan 27 , who one
by one out the memories of warm and deep corners of his soul and
carefully arranged."As soon as the shootings were more intense, we
went down to the basement. Imagine us up and down four to five times a
day. At times, we lived there for days. But everyone was united and
close. We cooked and ate together. And children staged a show for
adults almost every day. "
Anahit roots lie in the border village of Chinari in the province of
Tavush (maternal side) and Aygedzor (from his father's side) and reach
up to his birthplace - the town of Berd, 10 kilometers from the
Armenian-Azerbaijani border, which have become theaters of war in the
early 1990s, and even today with regular violations of the cease-fire
that occur there.
Like all men of this region's father Anahit took up arms and protect
the borders of his country, and the mother of three children continued
to live in Berd, but Anahit may remember that the situation is more
serious when his father moved his family to Aygedzor, closer to the
border.
"Now I understand why: if your family is behind you, you will fight to
the last drop, no place for retirement. In my memory related to the
war, I can remember very well the hallway of our house with three
small bags containing our birth certificates and clothing essentials.
When the shooting were beginning we took our bags and waited for one
of the neighbors to come and help our mother we go down to the
basement. I still remember the panic on the stairs. I still hate the
panic. "
After attending kindergarten in the thunder of cannon and the school
as part of the "fire in the cease-fire" and later the Faculty of
Oriental Studies of the University of Yerevan State, Anahit is
currently a PhD at the Department of Oriental Studies of the State
University of St. Petersburg in Russia where it was sent from Yerevan
State University following an international university agreement.
While studying Anahit working away at the center of studies of
Armenian issues and Western Armenia.
"I live temporarily in Russia. As our Armenian students in St.
Petersburg often joked "I am an intellectual migrant worker," says
Anahit, two sisters and brother studying in Yerevan, but his parents
still live in Berd. "We use the opportunity to go to EBRD Aygedzor and
Chinari. Our commitment to Shamshadin is so strong and inexplicable.
This is not only a place of birth, this is the place where you are
yourself devoid of pretension. However exhausted and frustrated just
do a one-day visit is enough to return with new energy, because you
realize that you have much to do and not allowed to run out. "
In his opinion an ordinary resident of the border does not care much
about the chronology of the cease-fire, the parties in conflict and
the history of conflict, they need action. According to Anahit for any
survivor of the war a cease-fire is like air and water.
"If, for example, you dine with someone Shamshadin, the first toast is
for peace. The cease-fire was necessary for both sides, the question
is how we acted after the ceasefire and what are the lessons we have
learned. We had enough time to develop the border areas, but we have
not done anything worse, the population decreased and now we have what
we have.In border villages every day is an undeclared war. People have
become accustomed to it and their only request is social security,
"says Anahit adding that the state must take concrete steps to develop
border areas, must provide benefits for residents - lower taxes,
health care affordable and education, support for small and medium
enterprises, and especially employment opportunities, so that
university graduates do not have the obligation to leave for Russia
and Yerevan to find a job.
According to sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, research shows that the
generation born during the war cease-fire sees his future outside of
Armenia.
"The search for a better fortune abroad becomes a sore point, but half
of the generation grows to be patriots, we have put our hope in them,
not those who receive higher education and try to leave Armenia "said
Adibekyan.
War, fire, border, daily shootings, mined areas ... these words become
common to ear approach the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, while far from
the border, they are like phonemes heard in a movie . According to the
ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan, in general, there is no understanding
of the phenomenon of truce.
"In Armenia there is a feeling that everyone is talking about the war,
but it is not a reality, even the word fire is not in our lives, and
there is a feeling that people are not ready, I do not think this is
the best condition, "says Kharatyan.
Narine Vardanyan, born in the village of Nerkin Karmragyugh in 1994,
is well aware of the price of war and peace, and sometimes angry when
his peers born in the capital do not understand, can not imagine her
emotions and feelings when his hometown is under fire.
"Recently, a historian with a very serious face explained what a
cease-fire.Maybe he's right, that his moving speech, he would have had
to leave out the terms of the agreement, the documents, the
conflicting parties and would have then reality - we have reached a
cease- fire because of our men who fought, who fought and died. The
relative peace we have is not due to a piece of paper, it is because
of our struggle at the national level, "says a contemporary of the
cease-fire, which recalls the paper the agreement has not served its
purpose, which is proved by the fact that Comrade Narine boys are
always in danger every day protecting the border marked by their
fathers.
First year student at the Faculty of Journalism of Yerevan Narine has
almost no memory of his childhood, it is said that the day she was
born there there was a lot of snow, his father was before and during
the long time they could not find a car to take her mother work at the
regional center of EBRD, and when, finally, there was a car and they
reached the hospital, there was no electricity "We are a generation of
hard work and life with a miracle."
Student at Yerevan Narine says she dreams of her village, and she
hopes to put one of his hobbies, writing, serving to tell the world of
everyday life, history and heroes of his small village.
Narine tenderly packed clothes for a few days, candy bought for his
parents in the village to spend a weekend in the village with his
family.
"Go Yerevan to our village to me is the same as back home during a
break for a soldier. I look forward and I miss home and everyone more
day before you go ... Before I used to take some books with me, now I
leave books, lessons, college, everything here so as not to disturb
me.Furthermore, I return to Yerevan as a soldier returning after his
break - with difficulty and with a missing home, my real home. "
GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow
Sunday 1st June 2014,
Stéphane © armenews.com