by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 26, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
18-year-old Edgar Aghababyan was the only guardian of his disabled mother. He himself had health problems but, ignoring all the facts, the Ministry of Defense drafted Edgar into the army in January 2020. Edgar Aghababyan died on the third day of the war, on September...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 19, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
Levon Stepanyan, who died in a rocket strike on September 30, would have turned 20 on July 3. “I was kissing him then, now I am kissing his tombstone,” says Heghine Asatryan, the mother of the killed soldier. Levon, the only child of his parents, was a...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 19, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
Yurik Sargsyan, 36, was killed by a sniper on November 6 in the town of Shushi. He was married and had two daughters, aged 8 and 11. The girls already know what happened to their father, but they do not talk about it. “When he heard about the war, he volunteered...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 7, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
The body of Vitalik Ionanov, 30, an Assyrian, was being looked for for eight months. Only a DNA test revealed her remains and handed them over to her mother on May 19, 2021. Vitalik did not serve in the army because he had kidney problems, but, after learning about...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 7, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
19-year-old Torgom Sayadyan died in Mataghis at the hands of his older brother. Arthur Sayadyan, who suffered a concussion after Torgom’s death, was treated in a psychiatric hospital and then returned to service. Torgom and Arthur grew up in a large Assyrian family...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jun 25, 2021 | Editor's Choice, News
Kashatagh resident Anahit Harutyunyan has been baking bread for soldiers in her house since the first day of the war. She left the house when the bomb fell in the garden. She was unable to move items. Nobody helped Anahit, nobody provided her with a car. She ran away,...
