On his Facebook page, the Artsakh Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Hayk Khanumyan referred to the cases of burning houses, noting that he is publishing several facts.
“Since the disinformation and targeted information attacks have gone too far, I will publish some facts.
– In the middle of August, Aghavno’s electricity was disconnected from the Berdzor substation, Aghavno and Berdzor started receiving electricity from the line coming from Stepanakert. Days later, the fire burned the power line poles and destroyed the newly laid line.
– Transformer oil was stolen in Berdzor.
– The fire that broke out in Berdzor created serious threats to the high-voltage power line coming from Armenia to Artsakh.
– The fiber optic cable was robbed in the Aghavno area, due to which Artsakh was without internet for some time.
– Communication towers were looted and destroyed by scrap metal thieves.
We and other state bodies also called not to set houses on fire, not to demolish, not to loot infrastructure. Government agencies have more information and take more circumstances into account when making decisions than Facebook activists. If the decisions are made that way, then they must be implemented. Unfortunately, information terror has significantly weakened the ability of state institutions to respond to challenges (this is one of the shortcomings of our governance system).
And as a result, it turns out that some renegade “activists” can take a taxi, come to Aghavno or Berdzor, start a fire or firehouse/area, and leave, and be more patriotic than the employees of state institutions who think and work for the uninterrupted operation of infrastructures, live with their families in Artsakh, participated in the war and are daily involved in making decisions on security issues.
The lack of ability to analyze the facts and circumstances has turned our users of social networks into soldiers of the information war waged against the state structures of Artsakh.
Nowadays, when information is diverse, misinformation and manipulation play a major role, and authority ceases to exist. Even people solving vital problems overnight can be destroyed by a disinformation attack.
In such a case, the only way out is to strengthen the capacities of state institutions, to strengthen their position of state institutions. The war against these structures, which we are witnessing these days, is a war against the power (state structures) with the greatest organizational potential in Artsakh,” Khanumyan wrote.
