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Mar 11, 2021 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
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Parts from Maral Najarian's interview with Voice of Van's Houry Papazian.
Maral was repatriated to Beirut last night after 4 months of Azerbaijani captivity.
Voice of Van is a Lebanese-Armenian radio station.
The interview was held in Western Armenian.
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ARF MP Hagop Pakradounian first talks with Maral, calling her a hero, "we are with you, and you represent us. You are not the regular Maral who moved to Artsakh, you are the hero Maral who came back from Artsakh," he adds. The Leb MFA has asked the MP to congratulate her.
Maral Najarian, the Lebanese Armenian woman who was held captive by the Azerbaijani government for more than 4 months, has been released.
Source of pic and breaking news: @ArmenianWeekly
Najarian moved to Armenia, and then Artsakh after the Beirut blast.
After the end of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Maral was captured by Azerbaijan, with next to minimal information about her for months. She is reportedly back home in Beirut.