Samvel Karapetyan (general)

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Samvel Karapetyan
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Personal details
Born (1962-09-11) 11 September 1962 (age 59)
Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, USSR
AwardsHero of Artsakh
Military service
Allegiance Republic of Artsakh
Branch/serviceArtsakh Defence Army
Years of service1991-2019
RankMajor General
Battles/warsFirst Nagorno-Karabakh War
Four-Day War

Samvel Jamili Karapetyan (Armenian: Սամվել Ջամիլի Կարապետյան; born September 11, 1962), also known by his nom de guerre Oganovsky, is an Armenian military commander from the Republic of Artsakh who participated in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He holds the rank of major general in the Artsakh Defense Army and has received the award Hero of Artsakh.

Biography[]

Samvel Karapetyan was born on September 11, 1962 in Stepanakert in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, then a part of the Azerbaijan SSR. He served in the Soviet military from 1981 to 1983. He participated in the Karabakh movement to unite Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia and in the defense of Armenian settlements from 1988.

During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Karapetyan became commander of the Central Defense District (a regiment based in Stepanakert) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. His unit achieved a number of prominent victories during the war. Karapetyan was wounded twice during the war: once during the Battle of Kalbajar and again more severely near Horadiz.

Karapetyan continued to command the Central Defense District after the war until 2000, when he was appointed deputy commander of the Artsakh Defense Army. He held this position until 2019, when he resigned.[1]

In 2019, BBC's Russian-language service published an article claiming that Karapetyan commanded a group of soldiers from Nagorno-Karabakh that fired on protestors on March 1, 2008 during the 2008 Armenian presidential election protests, resulting in the deaths of 10 people.[2] The article was based on Karapetyan's questioning by the Special Investigative Service of Armenia in relation to the March 1 case, a copy of which the BBC acquired and published. Karapetyan denied the accusations, but confirmed the authenticity of the document and declared his readiness to repeat what he said during his interrogation in court at the trial of ex-president Robert Kocharyan.[3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ Ayvazyan, Milena (2019-04-02). "ՊԲ հրամանատարի տեղակալ Սամվել Կարապետյանը թողնում է պաշտոնը. Artsakhpress | Razm.info". razm.info (in Armenian). Retrieved 2021-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ ""Выполняли задачу - стреляли в народ": кто убивал демонстрантов в Ереване в 2008 году?". BBC News Русская служба (in Russian). 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  3. ^ "Major-General Samvel Karapetyan, Artsakh's former PM comment on BBC article about March 1 events". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  4. ^ Nalbandian, Naira (2019-08-09). "Karabakh General 'Ready' To Repeat His Testimony At Kocharian Trial". Azatutyun. Retrieved 2021-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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