“Armenia's Prime Minister had forbidden us to talk to anyone or to be in contact with anyone,” Levon Mnatsakanyan, the former "defense minister" of the "so-called republic" in Karabakh, said during the trial of ethnic Armenians accused of committing war crimes, Report informs.
He confirmed his participation in the war against Azerbaijan as part of the Armenian regular army:
"I participated in the war against Azerbaijan as part of the Armenian regular army. Besides this, I don't want to say what the order was about, you all know this. Generally, after I was discharged from military service, I had no connection with the army. Due to family and other reasons, I didn't want to. Also, we were forbidden to establish any contacts with the army."