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ASALA VETERAN: CORRUPTION AND LAWLESSNESS IN TOP ECHELONS OF POWER KEY REASON OF ARMY NEGATIVE IMAGE IN ARMENIA
Arminfo
Thursday, September 8, 16:36
Corruption and lawlessness in top echelons of power are the key reason
of army negative image in Armenia, Alek Yenigomshyan, a member of
Sardarapat Movement Initiative Group, veteran of the Armenian Secret
Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), told media, Thursday.
Bribe taking leads to non-interference into incidents in the army
hereby promoting such non-combat relations, he said. System changes
are not enough, he thinks, it is necessary to raise the authority of
the healthy officer forces and help them resolve the army problems.
Yenigomshyan is sure that problems in the Armenian public are only
one of the reasons of the recent incidents in army. But it is wrong
explaining the outrage in Armenia with the popular phrase "army is
the mirror of the public."
Recently non-combat deaths in unclear circumstances in army have grown
in number. Thus, on August 26 soldier of NKR Defense Army Aghasi
Abrahamyan died in hospital. He was severely beaten up in his army
unit and taken to the med bunker where he was left on the ground for
10 hours and again beaten up by the head of the med bunker.
Yesterday another soldier of Askeran regiment of the NKR Defense
Army Hayk Lazarian was killed while on duty by his comrade Lendrush
Nazlukhanyan as a result of mishandling a gun.
Earlier, the video posted on Youtube by the initiative group "We
will not keep silent!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kltNRmTe2TI
tells that the comrade of Hovhaness Vardanyan informed the family
of the soldier that their son was taken to psychiatric hospital 9
days ago. The territorial military commission called the incident
a misunderstanding. Vardanyan's father phoned the commander of his
son to get more information on the incident. The commander explained
nothing. The Defense Ministry has not responded to the statements
of the soldier's relatives since August 3. "I sent a healthy boy to
army, and has got him back from Karabakh in such state," the father
cried out.
The soldier in the video just repeats separate phrases going to and
fro, rolling on the ground and saying that he served well in Karabakh
but he was beaten up and raped. The uncle of the soldier Aram Virabyan
expressed indignation at the negligence of the higher instances to
the incident. "This negligence makes us leave for Karabakh and settle
accounts with the offenders. We are ready to rally in the square with
posters," he said.
Arminfo
Thursday, September 8, 16:36
Corruption and lawlessness in top echelons of power are the key reason
of army negative image in Armenia, Alek Yenigomshyan, a member of
Sardarapat Movement Initiative Group, veteran of the Armenian Secret
Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), told media, Thursday.
Bribe taking leads to non-interference into incidents in the army
hereby promoting such non-combat relations, he said. System changes
are not enough, he thinks, it is necessary to raise the authority of
the healthy officer forces and help them resolve the army problems.
Yenigomshyan is sure that problems in the Armenian public are only
one of the reasons of the recent incidents in army. But it is wrong
explaining the outrage in Armenia with the popular phrase "army is
the mirror of the public."
Recently non-combat deaths in unclear circumstances in army have grown
in number. Thus, on August 26 soldier of NKR Defense Army Aghasi
Abrahamyan died in hospital. He was severely beaten up in his army
unit and taken to the med bunker where he was left on the ground for
10 hours and again beaten up by the head of the med bunker.
Yesterday another soldier of Askeran regiment of the NKR Defense
Army Hayk Lazarian was killed while on duty by his comrade Lendrush
Nazlukhanyan as a result of mishandling a gun.
Earlier, the video posted on Youtube by the initiative group "We
will not keep silent!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kltNRmTe2TI
tells that the comrade of Hovhaness Vardanyan informed the family
of the soldier that their son was taken to psychiatric hospital 9
days ago. The territorial military commission called the incident
a misunderstanding. Vardanyan's father phoned the commander of his
son to get more information on the incident. The commander explained
nothing. The Defense Ministry has not responded to the statements
of the soldier's relatives since August 3. "I sent a healthy boy to
army, and has got him back from Karabakh in such state," the father
cried out.
The soldier in the video just repeats separate phrases going to and
fro, rolling on the ground and saying that he served well in Karabakh
but he was beaten up and raped. The uncle of the soldier Aram Virabyan
expressed indignation at the negligence of the higher instances to
the incident. "This negligence makes us leave for Karabakh and settle
accounts with the offenders. We are ready to rally in the square with
posters," he said.