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TOPIC OF THE ARMY 'UNDESIRABLE' FOR ARMENIA'S LEADERSHIP: STATEMENT
01.30.2014 19:00 epress.am
At the Jan. 28, 2014 rally of the civil initiative Army in Reality,
the RA Police once again brutally dispersed a peaceful gathering
organized at Liberty Square and once again violated Armenian citizens'
freedom of expression and fundamental rights, reads a statement issued
by the initiative.
"First, they used violence to prevent mothers of soldiers who died
during times of peace to approach the square. The mothers in black had
come to remind the officials participating in the festive celebration
at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alexander
Spendiaryan of the unsolved cases of their sons' murders.
Then, Army in Reality civil initiative members Vardges Gaspari,
Ara Nedolyan, and Artashes Sergoyan, who were supporting them [the
mothers], were unlawfully detained.
"The detained citizens were not given an explanation as to why they
were taken to the police station by force, and when citizen Vardges
Gaspari asked for copies of the documents related to his case,
central police division staff with the use of force and displaying
inhumane treatment put him in a van, taking him far from the building
and leaving him there in the mud and rain. The use of force against
mothers who've lost their sons and are searching for justice and
citizens voicing problems in the army once again proves that the
topic of the army is an undesirable and closed space for our country's
leadership and issues related to it cannot be raised.
"We consider the use of force against mothers of killed soldiers
and citizens raising problems in the army along with the ceremony to
celebrate Army Day to be another expression of the criminal policies
of state officials, aimed at promoting a culture of impunity and
arbitrariness," reads the statement.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/01/30/topic-of-the-army-undesirable-for-armenias-leadership-statement.html
01.30.2014 19:00 epress.am
At the Jan. 28, 2014 rally of the civil initiative Army in Reality,
the RA Police once again brutally dispersed a peaceful gathering
organized at Liberty Square and once again violated Armenian citizens'
freedom of expression and fundamental rights, reads a statement issued
by the initiative.
"First, they used violence to prevent mothers of soldiers who died
during times of peace to approach the square. The mothers in black had
come to remind the officials participating in the festive celebration
at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alexander
Spendiaryan of the unsolved cases of their sons' murders.
Then, Army in Reality civil initiative members Vardges Gaspari,
Ara Nedolyan, and Artashes Sergoyan, who were supporting them [the
mothers], were unlawfully detained.
"The detained citizens were not given an explanation as to why they
were taken to the police station by force, and when citizen Vardges
Gaspari asked for copies of the documents related to his case,
central police division staff with the use of force and displaying
inhumane treatment put him in a van, taking him far from the building
and leaving him there in the mud and rain. The use of force against
mothers who've lost their sons and are searching for justice and
citizens voicing problems in the army once again proves that the
topic of the army is an undesirable and closed space for our country's
leadership and issues related to it cannot be raised.
"We consider the use of force against mothers of killed soldiers
and citizens raising problems in the army along with the ceremony to
celebrate Army Day to be another expression of the criminal policies
of state officials, aimed at promoting a culture of impunity and
arbitrariness," reads the statement.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/01/30/topic-of-the-army-undesirable-for-armenias-leadership-statement.html