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DEATH STATISTICS
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country23288.html
Published: 14:01:42 - 09/09/2011
Today, the draft amendments to the law on military recruitment will
be introduced before the parliament of Armenia. This was yesterday
stated by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Defense Hrayr
Karapetyan, ARF Dashnaktsutyun. On the same day, a closed-door meeting
on the situation in the army was held which was attended also by NGOs.
Representatives of the Ministry of Defense say the number of deaths
and murders in the army decreased this year in comparison to the last
year. No data has been provided on the exact number of dead soldiers,
the dynamics of the growth or reduction, what the situation in the
armies of other countries is like (not in Azerbaijan and Russia,
but in the established armies).
While, figures in this connection were issued by a number of NGOs
and have never been rejected by the Ministry of Defense. Human
Rights Defenders calculated that since 2008, 187 death cases have
been registered in the army, and only 25 of them - in the result of
violation of ceasefire regime. That is, in three years 150 young men
died from violence or because they were recruited being ill.
Eastern countries where in the result of peace protests hundreds of
people die and the power is not charged, they can say this number is
not big. But for Armenia, where the human life must be accepted as
an absolute value, this is a colossal number.
Is the human life evaluated in Armenia?
According to recent data, 2, 1 murders per 100 thousand people happen.
In Moscow, this number is about 6, 7, in London and Rome - 1-3, in
Azerbaijan - about 7. That is the number of murders in Armenia is
not one of those highest. But in terms of the "accidental" deaths,
it can tear far away from these countries.
German diplomats, who visited Armenia, shared their first impressions:
they were astonished at the dangerousness of roads: drivers, passengers
and pedestrians every day risk their lives on roads.
Hundreds of traffic officers patrol in streets, but the number of
car accidents keeps increasing along with the number of victims.
There is no statistics on suicides, though almost every day dead
bodies are found under Yerevan bridges.
So many people died under cranes because the rules of accident
prevention are not respected. So many people die in the result of
doctors' errors.
All this is not murder, but the result of general atmosphere of the
country, where the human life is not considered absolute value. Where
brutality is a sign of strength, as in the army, and the head of
traffic police can happily report that during this period instead of
50, 49 people died, it means that the Traffic Police is working well.
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country23288.html
Published: 14:01:42 - 09/09/2011
Today, the draft amendments to the law on military recruitment will
be introduced before the parliament of Armenia. This was yesterday
stated by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Defense Hrayr
Karapetyan, ARF Dashnaktsutyun. On the same day, a closed-door meeting
on the situation in the army was held which was attended also by NGOs.
Representatives of the Ministry of Defense say the number of deaths
and murders in the army decreased this year in comparison to the last
year. No data has been provided on the exact number of dead soldiers,
the dynamics of the growth or reduction, what the situation in the
armies of other countries is like (not in Azerbaijan and Russia,
but in the established armies).
While, figures in this connection were issued by a number of NGOs
and have never been rejected by the Ministry of Defense. Human
Rights Defenders calculated that since 2008, 187 death cases have
been registered in the army, and only 25 of them - in the result of
violation of ceasefire regime. That is, in three years 150 young men
died from violence or because they were recruited being ill.
Eastern countries where in the result of peace protests hundreds of
people die and the power is not charged, they can say this number is
not big. But for Armenia, where the human life must be accepted as
an absolute value, this is a colossal number.
Is the human life evaluated in Armenia?
According to recent data, 2, 1 murders per 100 thousand people happen.
In Moscow, this number is about 6, 7, in London and Rome - 1-3, in
Azerbaijan - about 7. That is the number of murders in Armenia is
not one of those highest. But in terms of the "accidental" deaths,
it can tear far away from these countries.
German diplomats, who visited Armenia, shared their first impressions:
they were astonished at the dangerousness of roads: drivers, passengers
and pedestrians every day risk their lives on roads.
Hundreds of traffic officers patrol in streets, but the number of
car accidents keeps increasing along with the number of victims.
There is no statistics on suicides, though almost every day dead
bodies are found under Yerevan bridges.
So many people died under cranes because the rules of accident
prevention are not respected. So many people die in the result of
doctors' errors.
All this is not murder, but the result of general atmosphere of the
country, where the human life is not considered absolute value. Where
brutality is a sign of strength, as in the army, and the head of
traffic police can happily report that during this period instead of
50, 49 people died, it means that the Traffic Police is working well.