Surik Khachatryan’s son wants to serve in the army. he turned to Davit Tonoyan

Trdat Khachatryan, the son of former governor of Syunik, Surik Khachatryan, applied to Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan to join the armed forces. The letter of the former governor’s son was published by lawyer Armen Martirosyan.

In a letter to the Minister of Defense Trdat Khachatryan wrote: “I am Trdat Suriki Khachatryan, born on July 23, 1996. In all official documents, including the criminal case No. 90100518, I am presented as the youngest son of Surik Khachatryan, former governor of Syunik, RA.

With the diagnosis of “moderately expressed neurasthenia”, I received a 3-year postponement for the winter draft of 2014 by the decision of the central medical commission.

In 2017, I was declared unfit for military service during the winter draft and registered in the reserve army. In fact, I got the disease on the following occasions. In 2013, in Goris, in the yard of our house, Avetik Budaghyan died as a result of mutual shooting, Nikolay Abrahamyan, Artak Budaghyan were seriously injured. I was a participant in the mentioned incident and helped the wounded. Avetik Budaghyan died in my arms, and with the help of the boys, I put the wounded in the car and took them to the hospital in Goris. This phenomenon has had a profound effect on me. And here, one year after the mentioned incident, the doctors diagnosed “moderately expressed neurasthenia” and for that reason I received a postponement, even though I wanted to be drafted even then,” the letter says.

The letter also states that in 2017-2018, with the help of his parents, he took various types of medical, health, and psychological measures (applying to various doctors, specialists, various medical centers, including medical institutions abroad), which had a positive effect, and he feels better than before.

Currently, the investigator has appointed a forensic psychiatric inpatient commission examination, which started on July 30, 2018.

“Regardless of the conclusion of the examination, I inform you, as the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, that I am ready to serve in the Armed Forces of Armenia. My only request and wish is to give me the opportunity to fulfill my duty to my homeland,” the letter says.

It became known earlier that in the criminal case under investigation in the proceedings of the Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee Trdat Khachatryan was charged with evading conscription or alternative service by forgery or other fraudulent means.

According to the police, Tigran and Trdat Khachatryan, the sons of former governor of Syunik Surik Khachatryan, not suffering from the disease that is the basis for exemption from military service, obtained documents, using which they were exempted from military service. During the preparation of the materials, it was found that: Tigran and: Trdat Khachatryan both at school and later in college, they did not show symptoms of the disease attributed to them.