POLICE CONTACTED AFTER VIOLENT ALTERCATION BETWEEN IMPRISONED POLITICAL ACTIVIST’S SON AND TEACHER
02.05.2014 17:22 epress.am
The son of an imprisoned political activist and his military training
teacher appealed to police to intervene in a violent altercation
that occurred between them on Tuesday. Shahen Harutyunyan, son of
Shant Harutyunyan, and his teacher, Hrachya Grigoryan, both submitted
reports to the police. In the incident that occurred during military
training in School No. 139, Grigoryan said that Harutyunyan “hit
him on the head with a chair and caused injury,” while Harutyunyan,
in turn, said the teacher “hit him twice on the chest and caused
physical pain.” According to the police, medical examinations have
been appointed.
Harutyunyan described the incident in detail yesterday on his Facebook
page: “Today my day started well, everything was going normally. In
school, I recited the poem dedicated to my father; I received praise
from my teachers. I was very happy that the teachers said warm words to
me. It seemed to me that it was one of the happiest days of my life,
but… Let me tell you how the story began,” he wrote. Harutyunyan
claims that two weeks ago Major Grigoryan began to personally insult
him during class.
“I replied in a very civilized manner. Then the conversation moved
to the independence of Armenia. He tried to convince me that we’ve
never been independent and will never be, and this is all well and
good, since we cannot have life without Russia. He also said that our
fedayeen died in vain, that Russia is our ‘daddy,’ that we’re slaves,
and Armenia cannot exist without Russia,” read Harutyunyan’s Facebook
status update.
According to Harutyunyan, when he objected, Major Grigoryan said
he’s mentally unstable. “I have a [mental] disorder because I think
Armenia should be independent, and not being under Russia’s yoke,
Armenia will be better. He told me: ‘You’re sick; I have nothing to
say to you.’ And I said, better that I be sick than be a slave like
you. I said it and left. At the next lesson, today, while singing the
anthem, all the students laughed, including me. I too have feelings
and it turned out that I couldn’t help it and began to laugh. The
Major inflicted the worst insults to me, saying that I’m a sheep,
I am unworthy and a scoundrel. He threatened to beat me for laughing
during the anthem, but I didn’t reply, thinking that I was wrong,
you can’t laugh during the anthem,” he wrote.
Harutyunyan then claims that Grigoryan again insulted him, though he
asked him not to. “He said, should I take you to the room now and beat
you or should we go see the director? I said, you can’t beat him; he
said, we’re going to see the director, and we went. The director was in
a meeting; we were supposed to go at the end of class. We returned to
the classroom and again he began to insult me. I asked then demanded he
stop. I swore if he insults my dignity once again, I’ll hit him. And
he, knowing that, insulted me. I approached him to hit him, [but]
understood that you shouldn’t hit, and instead said like a donkey he
doesn’t listen to me. He approached me and issued a powerful blow to
my chest. I kicked him. He likewise kicked me, and I hit him on the
head with a chair. If I didn’t hit him, he’d kill me. I hit him and
left the classroom. All the students were in shock. Then they told
me that after I left, the major tried to discredit me, saying that
I’m instilling an anti-Armenian spirit. I returned home,” he wrote.
From: A. Papazian
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