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NOT WAITING FOR SEYRAN OHANYAN: RELATIVES OF KILLED SOLDIERS PROTESTED UNDER THE RAIN
epress.am
10.13.2011 16:29
If a year ago, there were only 5 relatives of soldiers killed in
the army protesting outside the Armenian government building every
Thursday, well today this number has grown exponentially.
Tsovinar Nazaryan, sister of the late Artak Nazaryan, 30, commander
of a rifle platoon and head of a military base in Tavush, who
died suddenly in July 2010, today spoke to Epress.am about the two
non-combat army deaths in Nagorno-Karabakh reported this past week.
Recall, just as with Artak Nazaryan, the defense ministry has claimed
both cases were suicides.
"When we received the news, we were simply in shock - it's very
frightening what's happening, because yesterday they buried someone
then received news of the death of another serviceman, which the
defense ministry right from the beginning declares is suicide. You
don't know how they decide this: they decide very quickly; they
have super-professional investigators; they say very quickly that
it's suicide. This has to be stopped somehow and right now because
if two people from the same village are killed two days apart-this
has to be stopped right now. Tomorrow or the day after, someone else
will be murdered... we can't wait a month, we can't even wait a week,
because in that one week a few people might be tortured again, a few
more murdered," she said.
Note that defense minister Seyran Ohanyan wasn't participating in
today's cabinet meeting.
However, Tsovinar said when the minister comes or when he leaves
doesn't interest her. What's important for her is that he does his job.
"I'm not waiting for him. I come here to express my public protest; not
for Seyran Ohanyan to come out [of the building] and again [projecting]
his good courteous image say remarks to calm us somehow and then until
the next government session a few more people are killed," she said.
Tsovinar Nazaryan informed Epress.am that joining their group recently
are the parents of Tigran Hambardzumyan and the entire family of
Aghasi Abrahamyan, both men killed in the army these past two months.
Despite the light rain this morning, protestors stayed outside the
building till the end. They were holding posters and placards in their
hands with such inscriptions as "End the war against our children,"
"People unable to keep their own army will be forced to keep another's
army," "The army without murderers," and "An unannounced war against
Armenian soldiers."
epress.am
10.13.2011 16:29
If a year ago, there were only 5 relatives of soldiers killed in
the army protesting outside the Armenian government building every
Thursday, well today this number has grown exponentially.
Tsovinar Nazaryan, sister of the late Artak Nazaryan, 30, commander
of a rifle platoon and head of a military base in Tavush, who
died suddenly in July 2010, today spoke to Epress.am about the two
non-combat army deaths in Nagorno-Karabakh reported this past week.
Recall, just as with Artak Nazaryan, the defense ministry has claimed
both cases were suicides.
"When we received the news, we were simply in shock - it's very
frightening what's happening, because yesterday they buried someone
then received news of the death of another serviceman, which the
defense ministry right from the beginning declares is suicide. You
don't know how they decide this: they decide very quickly; they
have super-professional investigators; they say very quickly that
it's suicide. This has to be stopped somehow and right now because
if two people from the same village are killed two days apart-this
has to be stopped right now. Tomorrow or the day after, someone else
will be murdered... we can't wait a month, we can't even wait a week,
because in that one week a few people might be tortured again, a few
more murdered," she said.
Note that defense minister Seyran Ohanyan wasn't participating in
today's cabinet meeting.
However, Tsovinar said when the minister comes or when he leaves
doesn't interest her. What's important for her is that he does his job.
"I'm not waiting for him. I come here to express my public protest; not
for Seyran Ohanyan to come out [of the building] and again [projecting]
his good courteous image say remarks to calm us somehow and then until
the next government session a few more people are killed," she said.
Tsovinar Nazaryan informed Epress.am that joining their group recently
are the parents of Tigran Hambardzumyan and the entire family of
Aghasi Abrahamyan, both men killed in the army these past two months.
Despite the light rain this morning, protestors stayed outside the
building till the end. They were holding posters and placards in their
hands with such inscriptions as "End the war against our children,"
"People unable to keep their own army will be forced to keep another's
army," "The army without murderers," and "An unannounced war against
Armenian soldiers."