Mataghis: Children who have seen the war

Three year old Mane from Mataghis does not want even to hear the name of thje village already three days.

Her mother says that the child was very frightened, and did not smile for a few days, did not communicate. Now she speaks, communicates, but there is sadness in her eyes.

I began to talk to Mane, I asked, where she was, what she remembered, how it happened, but all my questions remained unanswered. Her mother came to help us, persuading her to speak, but she was hanging her eyes down and sadly smiling. I already started to talk to Mane’s mother Hripsime Aslanian, who has three children, two 1-year-old twins, and 3 –year-old Mane and together with her children and her husband’s aunt they have been living in a community of Aragatsotn region since April 3th. They did not omagine that at that night they would leave their homes and villages in a few minutes. Everybody   in Mataghis was used to the shooting. That day they were thinking that it was another shot.

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