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Is Pashinyan accusing the Artsakh military of not resisting or of resisting?

by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 17, 2024 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice

The former ombudsman of Armenia Arman Tatoyan and the ombudsman of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan issued a joint statement calling to stop the hate campaign against the people of Artsakh. This campaign has been intensified since the moment the “Tavush for the...

“There are 80 unconfirmed prisoners in Azerbaijan, there are direct evidences confirming the capture of these persons:” human rights defender

by Narek Kirakosyan | Dec 8, 2023 | 44-Day War, Editor's Choice

“The return of the captives should take place in the near future: it’s a matter of hours or days,” Sargis Khandanyan, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Assembly, announced this in a briefing with journalists at the National...

“We cannot give any answers about your children until the peace agreement is signed:” Suren Papikyan to the parents of the missing in action

by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 4, 2023 | 44-Day War, Editor's Choice

On Friday, September 1, Defense Minister Suren Papikyan finally received the parents of the soldiers who disappeared in the 44-day war. According to eyewitnesses, upon entering the Ministry of Defense, they were subjected to a thorough and humiliating inspection. They...

“We searched my son in the morgues until my wife died of a heart attack”

by Narek Kirakosyan | Aug 18, 2023 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice

The family does not have any news about their son Gevorg Arabachyan, a conscript soldier who participated in the 44-day war, for almost three years. They live in the village of Vazashen, Tavush region. The father, Aghasi Arabachyan, told Forrights.am that his...

“Why did you leave me alone, my son?” A young mother who lost her only child in the war is looking for ways to ease her grief

by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Aug 8, 2023 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice, News

42-year-old Lali Aydoeva, a Yezidi by nationality, lost her only son, Davit, and earlier, her husband, in the 44-day war. The young woman now lives alone in a rented apartment in Yerevan. “I’m suffocating, I go back and forth in the house, I kiss and hug...

“They called us and told to go and pick up our son’s body, we went, but they said there was a mistake; it was an officer’s body, which they burried”

by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 17, 2023 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice

Aghasi Arabachyan, the father of Gevorg Arabachyan, who went missing after the 44-Day War, was near the government building, surrounded by police troops in red and black berets, and State Security Service officers. He is looking for his son and has many questions, but...