MRS. AZNIV WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE

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72-year old pensioner Azniv’s neighbors visit her room often and always talk about the past. They all currently reside in the former student hostel hostel in Charbakh. The guard of the hostel Mrs. Gayane accompanied us to the 4th floor showing us the rooms of pensioners from Baku.

Mrs. Azniv lives in the best equipped room on the floor. She invited us and showed the photos of her two sons and two grandchildren who are in Russia. Then she told us that her husband died in 2004 and his co-workers helped her remodel her room. She said that her children help from Russia.

Mrs. Azniv barely survived the massacres in Baku.

“My lezgi neighbor came and warned me that there were going to be massacres. But it is not easy to let go of what you have. I thought they wouldn’t do anything, but in the end…” Azniv said crying and wasn’t able to go on. Then she went on to tell us how the Azeri from Armenia invaded their house, beat and robbed them.

“My Russian acquaintances hid me for 15 days. At the time, chairs and other items were flying out of windows to the major streets of Baku. They used to light bonfires at nights and there were burnt bodies everywhere,” said Azniv adding that many people died on the boats and only half of the people that came by boat remained alive.

“The Armenian community of Krasnadovsk welcomed us and accompanied us to the airport to fly to Yerevan. I couldn’t believe that I was coming to Armenia. It was there where I decided to bow down and kiss the land because it is at that moment when you feel what the homeland is,” said Mrs. Azniv who doesn’t want to live anywhere else after the events. Mrs. Azniv said that she had visited her sons in Russia, but did not wish to stay.

She watches television and reads the Bible in her room. She offered us some things to eat and asked when we would come back.

“My doors are always open. I will not go anywhere,” she said.