by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 28, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
On April 14, it was the 40th day after passing away of Norik Vardanyan, an 18-year-old participant in the 44-day war. The remains of the soldier who served only two months could be found and identified by DNA testing only about five months after the end of the war, on...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 28, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
Davit Rafayelyan died on the way to Shushi on November 7. He was a sergeant and spent a year and a half in the 5th Battalion in Hadrut. David was under siege in Hadrut for days, then escaped with the recruits under his responsibility and moved to other positions. He...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 22, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
18-year-old Adam Grigoryan, who was drafted from the village of Lernagog in the Armavir region last summer, could not have imagined that he would take part in the war in just four months. After 20 days of heavy fighting in Jrakan (Jabrail), Adam received multiple...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 22, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
Ishkhan Aslanyan, a 33-year-old contract soldier, received 12 fractures to his right leg as a result of a projectile explosion during the war. He is still receiving treatment and hopes to be able to stand on his own two feet very soon. Ishkhan, a resident of Nazrvan...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 22, 2021 | Army
Hrachik Mirzakhanyan is from the village of Mets Tagher in Hadrut. His three sons Gagik, Garnik and Arthur took part in the last Artsakh war, and his eldest son, Ararat, could not go to war because he has a first-degree disability․ He was wounded in 2007 during an...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 22, 2021 | Army
Nerses Nersisyan, 57, who took part in the three wars in Artsakh, was refused to volunteer at the military commissariat on the morning of September 27. “You are over 55”, they said, and sent him home. However, the freedom fighter was not one of those who surrender...
