Garen Mouths Off
‘Okhtuh Khach:’ Seven Crosses to Bear
In the local, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh/NKR) dialect, “okhtuh” means seven. Of course “khach” is a cross. Okhtuh Khach is the name of a peak in the Hadrout district of Artsakh, if memory serves me. But lately, it seems that we have seven crosses to bear in the form of the unnecessary ambiguousness created by President Serge Sarkisian’s comments about the seven districts surrounding NKR that are formally outside its declared border.



