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AVOIDING MILITARY SERVICE ACCORDING TO LAW
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24263.html
Published: 11:52:50 - 19/11/2011
A group of young people who have completed their military service
sent a letter to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Serzh Sargsyan. They are
indignant that "the number of young government officials who have
not served in the army is growing".
They demand that Serzh Sargsyan make a statement on those members
of parliament, ministers and other high-ranking young people who
were born after 1972 and have not served in the army, and their
appointment. Those who served in the army note rightly that such
injustice may be destructive for Armenia.
The Armenian press regularly reports high-ranking officials who
have not served in the army. Usually, most of them avoid service
"in accordance" with the law. They get a "scholarship" to study at
a university, then they are admitted to do a master's program and a
PhD program and in this period they have just enough time to marry
and have two children.
Other high-ranking officials or their sons get deferment for different
reasons and spend their military service in cafes and clubs of Yerevan.
Our leaders know the plight in the army better than anyone else and
they will not send their kids to the army "voluntarily". Let the
"puppies" of others serve, as Vova Gasparyan would say.
Young people who served in the army bring up the issue of justice.
Justice is an abstract notion but at the same time it is highly
concrete when it is related to dignity and equality of man. Sometimes
it has more grave consequences than war.
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24263.html
Published: 11:52:50 - 19/11/2011
A group of young people who have completed their military service
sent a letter to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Serzh Sargsyan. They are
indignant that "the number of young government officials who have
not served in the army is growing".
They demand that Serzh Sargsyan make a statement on those members
of parliament, ministers and other high-ranking young people who
were born after 1972 and have not served in the army, and their
appointment. Those who served in the army note rightly that such
injustice may be destructive for Armenia.
The Armenian press regularly reports high-ranking officials who
have not served in the army. Usually, most of them avoid service
"in accordance" with the law. They get a "scholarship" to study at
a university, then they are admitted to do a master's program and a
PhD program and in this period they have just enough time to marry
and have two children.
Other high-ranking officials or their sons get deferment for different
reasons and spend their military service in cafes and clubs of Yerevan.
Our leaders know the plight in the army better than anyone else and
they will not send their kids to the army "voluntarily". Let the
"puppies" of others serve, as Vova Gasparyan would say.
Young people who served in the army bring up the issue of justice.
Justice is an abstract notion but at the same time it is highly
concrete when it is related to dignity and equality of man. Sometimes
it has more grave consequences than war.