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Это биография и мемуары об армянине американского происхождения Монте Мелконяне (1957–1993), опубликованные Bloomsbury в 2005 году.
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Книга была написана с помощью вдовы Монте, Сеты, и охватывает его путь от классных комнат Калифорнии до развалин Бейрута, иранскую революцию, АСАЛА и борьбу за Нагорный Карабах.
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Soon, however, things changed. Arabo and Aramo fighters shoved thirtyeight
captives, including several women and other noncombatants, into a
ditch on the outskirts of the village. One of the captives in the ditch pulled
the pin from a grenade concealed under a bandaged hand and tossed it,
taking off the lower leg of one of his captors, a recent Patriotic Detachment
recruit named Levon. The Arabo and Aramo fighters there had already been
hankering to “avenge” the death of another comrade the day before, so as
soon as the grenade had gone off they began stabbing and shooting their
captives, until every last one was dead. Shram Edo, one of the five Patriotic
Detachment “boys” from Ashdarak, had joined in too, dousing several
wounded soldiers with gasoline and tossing a match to burn them alive. By
the time Monte came across the ditch on the outskirts of town it was a
butchers scrap heap.
Monte had given strict orders that no captives were to be harmed. The
veins on his neck stood out like braided hemp, and he hollered until he was
hoarse, but the black-turbaned Arabo captain didnt even shrug as he turned
away from the stammering nuisance and resumed loading booty.
The Arabo and Aramo detachments hauled off all the weapons captured
that day—seventy-eight rifles plus thousands of rounds of ammunition—
and they emptied the village warehouse, too, dragging out tons of bagged
wheat to sell. After the looting, they set the village ablaze.
A total of fifty-three Azeris were killed in and around Karadaghlu during
those two days, compared to three killed on the Armenian side, including a
sixty-year-old villager in Haghorti who had been hit by a stray bullet.
As news spread that Karadaghlu had been “cleaned out,” several
delegates arrived from the village of Krasnyi Bazar, fifteen kilometers to
the south. Two years earlier, local Azeris in OMON uniforms had stopped
four Armenians from Krasnyi Bazar, including a woman, and burned them
alive in their car. Now, their fellow villagers politely requested four of the
Azeri captives for madagh—a blood sacrifice. It was written, after all: an
eye for an eye. Monte scowled them down, and they left empty-handed.
More than fifty Azeri captives had been butchered at Karadaghlu. But it
was not the butchery that damaged Montes reputation among the Karabagh
mountain people. On the contrary, vengeance ran deep in the mountains,
and the loudest voices on both sides demanded blood for blood. What
damaged Montes reputation, rather, was the fact that the butchery at
Karadaghlu had taken place against his orders. Kechel Sergei, who had
Шрам Эдо, один из пяти Патриотических
Отряд «мальчиков» из Ашдарака тоже присоединился, облив нескольких
раненых солдат обливают бензином и бросают спичку, чтобы сжечь их заживо.
Отряды Арабо и Арамо вытащили все захваченное оружие.
в тот день — семьдесят восемь винтовок плюс тысячи патронов —
и деревенский склад они тоже опустошили, вытащив тонны мешков
пшеница на продажу. После грабежа они подожгли деревню.
Всего в Карадаглу и его окрестностях были убиты пятьдесят три азербайджанца.
эти два дня по сравнению с тремя убитыми с армянской стороны, в том числе
шестидесятилетний житель деревни Хагорти, в которого попала шальная пуля.