Azerbaijan Weapons vs Armenians - Monte Melkonian

Monte Melkonian was born in California and educated at Berkely. He was a trained archaeologist who spoke eight languages. Turning down scholarships for graduate study at prestigious universities, he devoted the rest of his life to defending the underprivileged and voiceless. After graduating from U.C. Berkeley in the spring of 1978, Monte traveled to Iran, where he taught English and participated in the movement to overthrow the Shah. Later, he found his way to Iranian Kurdistan, where Kurdish partisans made a deep impression on him. In the fall of 1978, Monte made his way to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, in time to participate in the defense of the Armenian quarter against by the right-wing Phalange forces. In the spring of 1980, Monte was inducted into the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenian, ASALA, and secretly relocated to West Beirut. In ASALA, he took part in the assassinations of several Turkish diplomats in Europe during the early to mid-1980s for denying Armenian Genocide and was later arrested and sent to prison in France. In 1989, he was released and in the following year. Monte then found his way to what was then still Soviet Armenia. In the early 1990's, tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan turned into armed conflict over the region of Karabakh. Under these circumstances, it quickly became clear to Monte that if we lose Karabagh, as he stated, we turn the final page of our peoples history. He believed that, if Azeri forces succeeded in deporting Armenians from Karabagh, they would advance on Zangezur and other regions of Armenia. Thus, he saw the fate of Karabagh as crucial for the long-term security of the entire Armenian nation. Monte moved to Karabakh and played an outstanding role in reorganizing the small groups of Armenian fighters into an effective and disciplined force. In April 1993, Melkonian was one of the chief military strategists who planned and led the operation to capture the region of Kalbajar, which lies between the Republic of Armenia and Karabagh. Armenian forces captured the region in four days of heavy fighting, sustaining far fewer fatalities than the enemy. His skills were impressive, thus he was almost immediately given a role of leadership in the Martuni area by Vazgen Sargsyan. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war. He is largely credited for major military victories against Azerbaijan from the late autumn of 1992 to his death in June 1993. Monte left a legacy that benefited Armenians of the whole world.

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[ahousekeeper]

@ArmenianNetwork Do you have this footage without the background music? My friend is preparing a course on the Karabakh war chronology and it would be nice to include the part where he says about the Soviet army weapons passed to Azerbaijani Turks, because in the lecture there is a segment on the military balance.

[ArmenianNetwork]

@ahousekeeper You can type Monte Melkonian interview in youtube and find the whole interview

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[nuneh]

thank you for your service monte melkonian and all my other brave armenian brothers!

you make me even prouder to be an armenian.

LONG LIVE ARMENIA!

[ArmenianNetwork]

@Elman318 He died fighting for his people, he was outnumbered and still made Azeri soldiers run away from Armenians. You can have a military invested with 100 billion of dollars but you can not have a heart of an Armenian soldier. Pussies

[MrAsipa9]

Assyrians stand alongside Armenians in their struggle to liberate their rightful homeland.

Victory for Armenia!

[xxxiamthebestxxx]

excellent video & excellent proof for azeri lies!

[xxxiamthebestxxx]

@PeopleOfAr NO! He is Avo!

[PeopleOfAr]

He is an Armenian Che Guevara.

[Cobra21127]

U azerbaranov ne mojet bit geroyev oni vse gomiki, suki vsex rezat budem, na sey raz vam ne jit gandoni ne dotraxannie, FUCK AZERBAYJAN

[samirmammadov91]

ermənilər sizi qıracam. it küçüyü kimi. şəhidlərimizin ruhuna and içirəm. amma vaxtı var. o müqəddəs gün gələcək inşallah!!!

[spekingtruth]

@5737299e mechtay pidarazik kto huseynov , aliyevu vdumnaya  geroy kak etet skatina katori UBILL ARMYANINU KOGDA BILL SPIT ON vo eti vashi geroyi abijniuki , A VOT MONTE VIYEBALL VAM I VAZMILL PALAVINA KARABAXH I vashi EMU NOGI TSELAVALLI i poshli naxuy ON VASHIX tselk atkrivall , NU NI KONCHALL tvayu mamu pizdu vnutri SHTO KRAYNI SLUCHI , ARMYANSKI DUX VAM NI DASHOLL ,PONYELL SHAS

[5737299e]

kto avo ,katoriy Ibad Gusynov yebal eta on

[5737299e]

avo ubil mnogo detey zato on sam umer tragicheskiy pered smertem on umalyal kag deti