Just a few days after Lyudvig, Azerbaijani soldiers seized Alyosha Khosrovyan. On July 14, at a European Parliament conference calling for the release of Armenian hostages, Davit Ishkhanyan’s son Armen discussed the human toll on the families of the hostages. The same blood that dyed the sands of the Syrian Desert now stains the floors of Azerbaijani prison cells. If you wince at photographs of Genocide victims, you should ache no less at images of Armenian soldiers returned with their ears severed, their mouths mutilated, their chests desecrated. Together, they carry the full weight of what the Armenian nation stands to lose.