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Varoujan Avetisyan: "This parasitic regime has no need of Artsakh war vets"
Narek Aleksanyan
13:42, May 14, 2013
While speaking to reporters today about the sit-down protest that
several Artsakh war vets launched two days ago in Yerevan's Freedom
Square, legal expert and depot battalion Colonel Varoujan Avetisyan
said that while he wouldn't participate in the protest, he did support
it.
`An average of 40-50,000 AMD for a disabled vet seeking medical care
is a joke. It can't even be justified by arguing that the country is
in dire economic straits,' said Avetisyan.
Referring to one of the placards of the protestors that reads `We
aren't mercenaries', Avetisyan said that the vets feel that the
government regards them as vital when they are young and healthy, but
then discards them when they get older.
`Once a soldier leaves the army, he is no longer good for anything.
They throw us scraps. They treat us like mercenaries because only
mercenaries are not paid once they leave active service,' said
Avetisyan.
He said that the protest action would have some tangible result but
that systematic reforms wouldn't be achieved.
Avetisyan argued that structural change was impossible in Armenia
given that the government was a parasitic, consumerist, system that
had no need of Artsakh war vets.
He added that the regime, fearing a public reaction to the issue,
would strive to deceive and disperse the protestors by making certain
reform promises.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/26459/varoujan-avetisyan-this-parasitic-regime-has-no-need-of-artsakh-war-vets.html
Narek Aleksanyan
13:42, May 14, 2013
While speaking to reporters today about the sit-down protest that
several Artsakh war vets launched two days ago in Yerevan's Freedom
Square, legal expert and depot battalion Colonel Varoujan Avetisyan
said that while he wouldn't participate in the protest, he did support
it.
`An average of 40-50,000 AMD for a disabled vet seeking medical care
is a joke. It can't even be justified by arguing that the country is
in dire economic straits,' said Avetisyan.
Referring to one of the placards of the protestors that reads `We
aren't mercenaries', Avetisyan said that the vets feel that the
government regards them as vital when they are young and healthy, but
then discards them when they get older.
`Once a soldier leaves the army, he is no longer good for anything.
They throw us scraps. They treat us like mercenaries because only
mercenaries are not paid once they leave active service,' said
Avetisyan.
He said that the protest action would have some tangible result but
that systematic reforms wouldn't be achieved.
Avetisyan argued that structural change was impossible in Armenia
given that the government was a parasitic, consumerist, system that
had no need of Artsakh war vets.
He added that the regime, fearing a public reaction to the issue,
would strive to deceive and disperse the protestors by making certain
reform promises.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/26459/varoujan-avetisyan-this-parasitic-regime-has-no-need-of-artsakh-war-vets.html