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“He was killed 10 minutes after talking to me. If he hadn’t ended the conversation, I would have heard the shot:” soldier’s mother

by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 14, 2023 | Army, Editor's Choice

“I finished talking to him at four past twenty. They said he died at half past four. The murder took place ten minutes after talking to me,” said Anush Petrosyan in a conversation with Forrights.am. Anush Petrosyan is the mother of soldier Murad Grigoryan,...

“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...

“If my condition gets too bad, take out your weapon, shoot me and go ahead: do not leave your positions.” Omar’s commander

by Narek Kirakosyan | Jul 18, 2023 | Army, Editor's Choice

“When I look at his eyes, it seems to me that he wants to say something,” says the mother at her son’s grave, holding back her tears: she has lost her son in 44-Day War. The silence of the military pantheon of Aparan is interrupted by the words of...

“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...

“He was recognized by the Vardavar picture:” Remembering Baghdasar Gharibyan

by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 16, 2023 | 44-Day War, Editor's Choice

Today, Mary Harutyunyan found and posted on her social media page the pictures of her only son, Baghdasar, who was killed in the 44-Day War. In the photo, he is happy, surrounded by friends, having fun on Vardavar Day [an Armenian national festival during which people...

“The children were sent to the occupied territory, thrown into a meat grinder: why?” The Yazidi Samsonians never received their son’s body

by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Jul 14, 2023 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice

“He is an extremely friendly, extremely modest, smart and reaching boy”, – this is how his first teacher, Astghik Arakelyan, remembers Shavo Samsonian, a student of Jrvezh school, and immediately adds: “For me, he is always present.” Mrs....