by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 14, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
– Wonderficent. This is how Samvel Gevorgyan’s mother, Hasmik, answered the question on which phrase her son often repeated. “He introduced a new word in Armenian.” – Wonderful or wonderficent? – Wonderficent. Do not think of...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 14, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice, Photos, Social Rights
Avetis Avetisyan, a 30-year-old contract soldier, was from the village of Norashen in Hadrut. He died on October 10, 2020, from a drone strike. One week earlier, Azeri saboteurs had tortured and killed his father, Hmayak. The Avetisyan family had left from Gyumri to...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 14, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
Yervand Hovhannisyan, 35, was one of the first victims of the 44-day war. He died during the first minutes of the war in Mataghis. Before that, he managed to call his wife and tell her to take the children and leave the village. Yervand’s family, his wife and...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 25, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
– Mom dear, there will be a war. Even if I am demobilized and return [home], one day the war will start, it is inevitable, I will come back here regardless of everything. And, if I am killed suddenly, do not cry: one must die like Robert Abajyan. Artashes...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 25, 2022 | Army, News, Photos
Vahe Nikoghosyan was killed on November 4, 2020 in Martuni. After returning from the army, the conscript dreamed of further developing his culinary skills and opening his own restaurant. Vahe went to the army with the “I am” program, within which he had to...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 25, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
“Pavel, will they take you to the army too?” “Mom, I am not better than anybody else. Every one of them has a mother. Do n ot worry; if I go, you still have two loving and devoted sons.” Pavel Sahakyan assured his mother that if he did not call, it would mean that...
