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Parents of Armenian soldiers killed in the 2020 Artsakh war spend the night at Yerevan’s Yerablur Military Pantheon to bar Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other senior officials from laying flowers there on the 32nd independence anniversary marked on September 21.

They say Pashinyan has no right to enter the military cemetery after Artsakh’s surrender to Azerbaijan.

Speaking to reporters, the mother of fallen soldier Mkhitar Galeyan, Astgh Galeyan, cited Pashinyan’s spouse Anna Hakobyan as saying back in 2019 that “our guys have died for nothing.”

“In fact, our sons have died for nothing. They sent our children to where they say Azerbaijan is. But Artsakh is our homeland, it is our historical lands, they abandoned Artsakh, and what Anna Hakobyan said has become a reality. They sacrificed our sons for nothing, whereas they live happily with their children,” she said.

The woman accused the Armenian leadership of "squandering" the self-sacrifices of Armenian soldiers during the Artsakh wars in the 1990s, 2016 and 2020.