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Freedom fighters demand reviewing their pensions and social guarantees
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13:04 - 11.05.13
A freedom fighter Volodya Avetisyan has been striking today in the
Liberty Square demanding from the government to radically review
social guarantees and pensions of the freedom fighters.
Not even managing to open his posters, policemen approached him and
took invited to the police station.
Tert.am correspondent reached the site where other two freedom
fighters came to support him. Harutyun Partamyan said though he is not
Volodya's friend but came to assist him. `If the government fails to
pay attention to the issues of freedom fighters the Liberty Square
will be full of them,' he said.
Partamyan is working as a guard and lives in a garage in Yerevan. He
served in 5th brigade headed by Manvel Grigoryan.
The former freedom fighter said he was in line to get apartment but
when his turn came they refused to give him for not having
registration in Yerevan and not being Armenia's citizen.
In a statement released yesterday a group of freedom fighters were
claiming that the government does everything to pay small pensions to
them.
Later Volodya Avetisyan returned, saying that he went to the police
station to `report' to Yerevan police chief Ashot Karapetyan. The
latter did not try to persuade him to stop the strike. Avetisyan said
he will stop it at Tuesday night.
He stressed that the government should focus on the issues of freedom
fighters as they cannot keep family with 50,000-60,000 AMD.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/05/11/azatamartik/
(photos, video)
13:04 - 11.05.13
A freedom fighter Volodya Avetisyan has been striking today in the
Liberty Square demanding from the government to radically review
social guarantees and pensions of the freedom fighters.
Not even managing to open his posters, policemen approached him and
took invited to the police station.
Tert.am correspondent reached the site where other two freedom
fighters came to support him. Harutyun Partamyan said though he is not
Volodya's friend but came to assist him. `If the government fails to
pay attention to the issues of freedom fighters the Liberty Square
will be full of them,' he said.
Partamyan is working as a guard and lives in a garage in Yerevan. He
served in 5th brigade headed by Manvel Grigoryan.
The former freedom fighter said he was in line to get apartment but
when his turn came they refused to give him for not having
registration in Yerevan and not being Armenia's citizen.
In a statement released yesterday a group of freedom fighters were
claiming that the government does everything to pay small pensions to
them.
Later Volodya Avetisyan returned, saying that he went to the police
station to `report' to Yerevan police chief Ashot Karapetyan. The
latter did not try to persuade him to stop the strike. Avetisyan said
he will stop it at Tuesday night.
He stressed that the government should focus on the issues of freedom
fighters as they cannot keep family with 50,000-60,000 AMD.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/05/11/azatamartik/