SOLDIER BEATEN BRUTALLY BY MILITARY POLICE, CLAIM ACTIVISTS
Tert.am
16.03.12
The Armenian youth group No Silence has issued a statement, voicing
concerns over military police officers~R misconduct against soldiers.
The activists claim that several soldiers taken to the military police
department of the Yerevan garrison on March 14 were beaten brutally
there because of a scuffle that broke out last month.
One of the soldiers, Arsen, who suffered most (he is claimed to have
received facial injuries), was taken back to the military unit after
being beaten and subsequently granted a leave, on condition that he
would not tell anyone about the incident, the group says.
Citing its sources, it claims further that the chief of the military
police, Ruben Nersisyan, the head of the Criminal Investigation
Department, H. Vopanyan, and an employee of the Investigative
Department A. Avagyan, were directly involved in the act of
hooliganism.
~SWhat causes an utmost repulsion is the attitude of the unit commander
who, for fear of straining his relations with the military police,
agreed to strike an illicit deal, by receiving a wounded soldier and
sending him home,~T reads the statement.
According to David Karapetyan, a spokesperson for the Defense Ministry,
the military police chief has assigned an internal investigation into
the validity of the facts furnished.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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