“They came in the middle of winter and shut off our electricity. What Turk would do that?” asked Nazo – Nazareth Liparityan – who moved to Ditsmayri from Beirut in 1999.
Karen Karapetyan, elected to parliament on a majoritarian ticket in Lori Marz's District 32, is currently performing miracles of charity in Tashir. Ahead of the 2007 parliamentary elections, Karapetyan has been bribing residents of Tsater, Aygehar, Mghart, Ardvi, and other villages in his district with two kilograms of sugar.
Farmer Sasun Ghazaryan from the village of Dian in the Aragatsotn Marz had a twenty-year-old wife, Anush, and one-and-a-half-year-old baby girl, Siranush, named after his mother. The young family was happy, as is usually the case in traditional hearths founded on love and hard work. They were impatiently expecting a second child to complete their happiness. But fortune didn't smile on them.