Women were the rear of the war: Nvard Avetisyan

Until recently, 27-year-old Nvard Avetisyan worked in the RA National Assembly as a media analyst. For a young specialist, the coronavirus, the legal regime of the state of emergency, and then the war, became a real ordeal test of soul and endurance.

“We had a big family party on September 26, but no one could have imagined what the outcome of the next day would be. But we all thought that this is something that will end in a few hours or a few days, “Nvard recalls.

In parallel with the work with the media, a large network of representatives of Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora was soon established in the National Assembly, in which the people involved were more active in social networks. The first announcement spread through them referred to the lack of translators. One day later, due to the response to the announcement, a large group of volunteers translating into 18 languages gathered.

 Nvard says that the war was not only a process of imagining one’s own abilities in a professional, working sense, but also a process of self-knowledge. She remembers that in October she lost contact with one of her closest people. It seemed that she could break, but she found an inexplicable strength  that she had never known about.

 According to her, there is a stereotypical mentality about the war that it is only men’s business. Nvard says women living in Armenia should not only do necessary work in the rear, but also have important functions on the battlefield.

The biggest tragedy, according to Nvard, is that the society did not have time to stop for a moment, to think, to clean itself, to be healed. Today, when there is boundless work to be done in Armenia to restore the homeland, to create better living conditions for the families of the fallen heroes, for the wounded, everything is done in an atmosphere where there is little love and many wounds․

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