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Surviving four wars: Yerjanik Hayrapetyan and her unyielding spirit
At 32 years old, Yerjanik Hayrapetyan has lived through four wars. Her journey began in 1992 during the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) liberation struggle when she was just six months old. Her family was forced to flee their village of Vaguhas in the Martakert province after it was captured and burned by Azerbaijani forces. For eight months, they lived under siege and finally found refuge in Armenia before returning to Artsakh a decade later to rebuild their lives from the ashes, like a phoenix risi
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Thank you, Anna Harutyunyan, for sharing with the readers of the Armenian Weekly Yerjanik Hayrabetyan and her young family’s plight. She surely embodies the resilient spirit of Artsakh. I wish you well too with your studies at the Department of Journalism at the Armenian State Pedagogical University and commend you for having already completed a milestone at Hedq Media Factor which I read is for investigative and responsible journalism.