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BOY'S HEALTH AND GOVERNMENT'S 56,000 DOLLARS
Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
Society - 27 March 2015, 14:50
Radio Liberty prepared a report on Gevorg Yeghiazaryan, 23 who was
wounded severely by the enemy's bullet at the Armenian-Azerbaijani
border four years ago and could not move at all.
He had a treatment in Israel with the support of the Ministry of
Defense and can now move in a wheelchair. However, the treatment was
interrupted due to lack of money, and the boy's state is getting
worse. He has to take painkillers all the time. The communication
officer of the Ministry of Defense said the ministry cannot finance
the young man. The parents say they need 56,000 dollars.
The Ministry of Defense has a lot of generals who ride in big cars
that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Yerkrapah Union of Volunteers
which is teaching patriotism in schools together with the Ministry
of Defense has dozens of members who ride in cars worth tens of
thousands of dollars, live in mansions, enjoy the fruits of the
victory of the nation.
I wonder if during the joint lessons of patriotism organized by
Yerkrapah Union and the Ministry of Defense they teach children that
they have to end up safe and sound after a clash with the enemy or
die because in case of severe injuries they may end up as a beggar,
like the 23-year-old young man.
Had he died, he would be a hero now. His photo would be posted
and reposted on the internet, he would be praised, an army of
the profession of patriots would have destroyed the "internal" and
"external" enemy on his behalf for several times, more and more teams
of sworn patriots would have been self-accomplished through his memory,
completing lessons of grandiloquence with high scores.
However, the young man was "unlucky" to survive the wounds caused by
the enemy's bullet and now the entire state cannot raise 56,000 U.S.
dollars to treat the soldier who risked his life for the state.
A state whose high-ranking officials from the president to ministers,
deputy ministers, generals and colonels are millionaires. A state where
the repair of the office, the office car and one business trip abroad
would cost 56,000 dollars. A state where the municipality scatters
benches worth 400 dollars each all over the streets, paints arches for
2000-3000 dollars but cannot get money for the soldier who risked his
life for the state. A state which buys a car worth 21 million drams
for the Investigative Committee, a winter car worth 40 million drams
for the speaker, a state where high-ranking officials hold at least 50%
of shares of different companies, and there is no money for treatment
of soldiers who risked 100% of their life for the state.
Let us assume that the Ministry of Defense does not have enough money.
After all, the ministry has allocated 70,000 dollars for the first
treatment. I wonder if there is no time to bomb the government with
requests until the treatment of the young man is financed. After all,
it is the honor, reputation and reliability of the Ministry of Defense,
the Armenian army. These components are provided with not only defense
capability and brilliant military operations. The armed forces are
a system where every detail matters for a long-term and permanent
public reputation and reliability.
>From this point of view, the ministry should not be the stakeholder of
a specific case but generally and lobby for that case. And the problem
which must be regulated by legislation must envisage the government's
responsibility to fully finance the treatment of wounded soldiers,
as well as lifelong social security of the families of killed and
wounded soldiers.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/33842
Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
Society - 27 March 2015, 14:50
Radio Liberty prepared a report on Gevorg Yeghiazaryan, 23 who was
wounded severely by the enemy's bullet at the Armenian-Azerbaijani
border four years ago and could not move at all.
He had a treatment in Israel with the support of the Ministry of
Defense and can now move in a wheelchair. However, the treatment was
interrupted due to lack of money, and the boy's state is getting
worse. He has to take painkillers all the time. The communication
officer of the Ministry of Defense said the ministry cannot finance
the young man. The parents say they need 56,000 dollars.
The Ministry of Defense has a lot of generals who ride in big cars
that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Yerkrapah Union of Volunteers
which is teaching patriotism in schools together with the Ministry
of Defense has dozens of members who ride in cars worth tens of
thousands of dollars, live in mansions, enjoy the fruits of the
victory of the nation.
I wonder if during the joint lessons of patriotism organized by
Yerkrapah Union and the Ministry of Defense they teach children that
they have to end up safe and sound after a clash with the enemy or
die because in case of severe injuries they may end up as a beggar,
like the 23-year-old young man.
Had he died, he would be a hero now. His photo would be posted
and reposted on the internet, he would be praised, an army of
the profession of patriots would have destroyed the "internal" and
"external" enemy on his behalf for several times, more and more teams
of sworn patriots would have been self-accomplished through his memory,
completing lessons of grandiloquence with high scores.
However, the young man was "unlucky" to survive the wounds caused by
the enemy's bullet and now the entire state cannot raise 56,000 U.S.
dollars to treat the soldier who risked his life for the state.
A state whose high-ranking officials from the president to ministers,
deputy ministers, generals and colonels are millionaires. A state where
the repair of the office, the office car and one business trip abroad
would cost 56,000 dollars. A state where the municipality scatters
benches worth 400 dollars each all over the streets, paints arches for
2000-3000 dollars but cannot get money for the soldier who risked his
life for the state. A state which buys a car worth 21 million drams
for the Investigative Committee, a winter car worth 40 million drams
for the speaker, a state where high-ranking officials hold at least 50%
of shares of different companies, and there is no money for treatment
of soldiers who risked 100% of their life for the state.
Let us assume that the Ministry of Defense does not have enough money.
After all, the ministry has allocated 70,000 dollars for the first
treatment. I wonder if there is no time to bomb the government with
requests until the treatment of the young man is financed. After all,
it is the honor, reputation and reliability of the Ministry of Defense,
the Armenian army. These components are provided with not only defense
capability and brilliant military operations. The armed forces are
a system where every detail matters for a long-term and permanent
public reputation and reliability.
>From this point of view, the ministry should not be the stakeholder of
a specific case but generally and lobby for that case. And the problem
which must be regulated by legislation must envisage the government's
responsibility to fully finance the treatment of wounded soldiers,
as well as lifelong social security of the families of killed and
wounded soldiers.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/33842