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I'LL KEEP MY SON'S MEMORY ALIVE
Janna Alexanyan
Lragir.am
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society23093.html
25/08/2011
Plainclothes soldiers took the dead body of Vardan Sevyan, 19, from
the military unit of Goris Town to Chambarak Town. They left the dead
body of the 19-year-old boy and went away. From the military unit,
nobody attended the funeral and nobody provided guide of honor at
the killed soldier.
"The commander did not apologize to me for losing my son," the
soldier's mother says. She got a telephone call from the military
unit. "The autopsy of my son wasn't finished yet when the commander
telephoned me, telling me to hurry up and bring Vardan to bury him
the next day. He wanted to bury him as soon as possible, to erase
all the traces, they thought his father is a poor guy, a refugee who
hardly speaks Armenian, and the mother is in grief. He doesn't know
that I will keep my son's memory alive, I will complain as long as
it takes," Susanna Sevyan says.
Vardan was injured to death on August 19, after returning to the
military unit from the polygon on the same day. Along with the message
on the death of the soldier, the ministry of defense released its own
story that Vardan committed a suicide after he had learned about the
marriage of his girlfriend. He allegedly left a suicide note at the
back of a photo.
Vardan's family rejects the suicide.
Vardan's sister, Armine, 20, says he was not the kind of person who
would commit a suicide for a woman. He had a strong will, he was
reserved, she says.
The soldier's mother and sister saw the deadly wound under the left
ear, a small black hole, and two parallel stitches on the neck,
under the chin.
"I am sure a soldier wouldn't do it. It's a well-thought job. They
first cut his neck, then they shot anyway," the sister says.
In three months Vardan would finish service and come back home. The
mother talked to the son, she says he felt good. His mother sent
him clothes to wear back home. If he was going to commit a suicide,
he would telephone me to talk to me last time, the sister says. Her
voice trembled, she desperately fought back her tears.
The investigative unit of the ministry of defense told the Armenian
service of RFE/RL that suicide is grounded best, about 10 witnesses
were interrogated. Besides, the soldier committed a suicide in a tent
and at the time of the accident he was alone.
However, the deputy chief of the investigative unit of the ministry
of defense Arman Poghosyan told me on telephone there was another
soldier sleeping in the tent who was awakened by the shot. Poghosyan
also believes in the story of suicide.
P.S.: In his remarks at the NATO HQ, the minister of defense Seiran
Ohanyan said it is unacceptable to tolerate human losses at peace
time. I wonder who these words were addressed to, maybe to the supreme
commander-in-chief.
Janna Alexanyan
Lragir.am
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society23093.html
25/08/2011
Plainclothes soldiers took the dead body of Vardan Sevyan, 19, from
the military unit of Goris Town to Chambarak Town. They left the dead
body of the 19-year-old boy and went away. From the military unit,
nobody attended the funeral and nobody provided guide of honor at
the killed soldier.
"The commander did not apologize to me for losing my son," the
soldier's mother says. She got a telephone call from the military
unit. "The autopsy of my son wasn't finished yet when the commander
telephoned me, telling me to hurry up and bring Vardan to bury him
the next day. He wanted to bury him as soon as possible, to erase
all the traces, they thought his father is a poor guy, a refugee who
hardly speaks Armenian, and the mother is in grief. He doesn't know
that I will keep my son's memory alive, I will complain as long as
it takes," Susanna Sevyan says.
Vardan was injured to death on August 19, after returning to the
military unit from the polygon on the same day. Along with the message
on the death of the soldier, the ministry of defense released its own
story that Vardan committed a suicide after he had learned about the
marriage of his girlfriend. He allegedly left a suicide note at the
back of a photo.
Vardan's family rejects the suicide.
Vardan's sister, Armine, 20, says he was not the kind of person who
would commit a suicide for a woman. He had a strong will, he was
reserved, she says.
The soldier's mother and sister saw the deadly wound under the left
ear, a small black hole, and two parallel stitches on the neck,
under the chin.
"I am sure a soldier wouldn't do it. It's a well-thought job. They
first cut his neck, then they shot anyway," the sister says.
In three months Vardan would finish service and come back home. The
mother talked to the son, she says he felt good. His mother sent
him clothes to wear back home. If he was going to commit a suicide,
he would telephone me to talk to me last time, the sister says. Her
voice trembled, she desperately fought back her tears.
The investigative unit of the ministry of defense told the Armenian
service of RFE/RL that suicide is grounded best, about 10 witnesses
were interrogated. Besides, the soldier committed a suicide in a tent
and at the time of the accident he was alone.
However, the deputy chief of the investigative unit of the ministry
of defense Arman Poghosyan told me on telephone there was another
soldier sleeping in the tent who was awakened by the shot. Poghosyan
also believes in the story of suicide.
P.S.: In his remarks at the NATO HQ, the minister of defense Seiran
Ohanyan said it is unacceptable to tolerate human losses at peace
time. I wonder who these words were addressed to, maybe to the supreme
commander-in-chief.