As Armenia enters a volatile and tense pre-election cycle, the air is thick with the competing rhetorics of a fractured political landscape. From the halls of Yerevan to the border villages, opposition groups and burgeoning political parties are jostling for position, each offering a different panacea for the nation’s post-war malaise. However, amidst this democratic clamour, a familiar and shadow-laden voice has re-emerged to claim the mantle of the "saviour." Robert Kocharyan, the former president, has seized upon the pre-election fervour to launch a campaign built on a breathtakingly bold revision of history.

In a recent interview, Kocharyan claimed that had his "Karabakh clan" remained at the helm, the 2020 war would never have occurred. To hear him tell it, his tenure was a golden age of "guaranteed peace." It is a cynical attempt to exploit the current political uncertainty by a man whose political DNA is inextricably linked to the very conflict he now claims he could have avoided.

The reality, visible to anyone not blinded by revanchism, is that the 44-day war was not a failure of current diplomacy, but the inevitable collapse of the corrupt, reactionary........

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