Today, the president of Journalists for Human Rights NGO Zhanna Alexanyan informed that from January to September, 34 cases of death of servicemen were registered in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia.
“These data are not official, they are data of different NGOs. Border incidents are included in these deaths.”
According to Zhanna Alexanyan, during the velvet revolution and after that, deaths of soldiers have been described as suicides. There were eight cases.
“Suicide attempts are always questionable. I know that Nikol Pashinyan is very interested in the army, but I notice the rights of the soldiers in the army are not the priority for the current government. I am very surprised they [rights] are not in the center of attention of the current authorities,” Alexanyan said.
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