by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 10, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
Levon Manukyan would have turned 21 years old on December 27. This year [in 2021], his family celebrated his birthday in Yerablur cemetery. The conscript was killed on October 14, 2020, in a battle to retake his position in Mataghis. In the early days of the 44-day...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 10, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
Despite the pre-holiday commotion in the capital, the work on improving the graves of the boys killed in the 44-day war has not stopped in Yerablur [military cemetery]. Many parents have placed Christmas trees and holiday decorations next to their sons’ pictures. Anna...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 30, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
Colonel Isahak Gharibyan was killed on October 13, 2020 in Karvachar. At the time of the drone strike, he was helping to lower his wounded friends from a height. The mother says that Isahac never has hurt anyone, so she had no idea how his son used a weapon during the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 30, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
For more than two decades, a photo of Lyova Khachatryan, the father of a family killed in the Artsakh war, was posted at the Khachatryans’ house in the village of Sasunik, Aragatsotn region. After the 44-day war, a picture of Lyova’s youngest son, Hovik,...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 17, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
The parents of Davit Khachatryan, who died in the Second Artsakh War, did not want to remember the past war and experience the pain anew. David was their only son. Zhanna Avetisyan, a relative of her mother, Nara Khachatryan, shared memories of David. Zhanna tells...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 6, 2021 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice, News
Prosecutors of the Department for the Supervision of the Lawfulness of Punishment and Enforcement behave harshly towards the convicts who have spent more than 20 years in detention. One after the other, the decisions of the Ministry of Justice’s placement...