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| 15:25:54 | 10-06-2005 | Social |
IN REGIONS HUMAN RIGHTS ARE FORGOTTEN MORE OFTEN
RA Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan has been to Gyumri on official duty
recently.
About 20 citizens had come to receive the Ombudsman. The reception took
place in the Gyumri branch of the non-governmental organization of the
`Armenian Center of Defense of Human Rights after A. Sakharov’. The main
issue the residents of Gyumri were concerned by was of course the housing
problem.
According to Mrs. Alaverdyan, the Human rights defense is realized more
badly in the faraway regions. A case of this is the village Voghji. The
facts of complaints to the Ombudsman from this village were registered
during the visit of her representatives. Moreover, the regional governor had
applied to Regional Governing Minister Hovik Abrahamyan in March with the
request to resign the head of the village from his post but there has been
no answer yet.
The lands which are cultivated by the residents of the village are near the
border. In order to go there a permit is needed. The permits are given to
the people 1.5 month before the spring and autumn agricultural seasons.
Those people who had «dared» to send a complaint to the Ombudsman, in
contrast to the rest, had not received their permits by June 7 in order to
cultivate their lands.
Today the residents of the village do not have Property documents of their
houses. Under the present head of the village the population of the village
has been considerably reduced.
According to L. Alaverdyan, the actions of the Voghji head do not suit a
local governor.
