by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 29, 2021 | Army, News
Three Armenian soldiers were killed and three others wounded in heavy fighting with Azerbaijani forces that broke out along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border early on Wednesday. Armenia’s Defense Ministry said Azerbaijani forces attacked at dawn its positions in...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 26, 2021 | Army
There has been unrest in the village of Yeraskh, 70 km from Yerevan, since July 14. From that day on, the Azerbaijani armed forces started firing in the direction of the Yeraskh positions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. No shots were fired in the direction of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 26, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
Samvel Alaverdyan, a 38-year-old resident of the Malatia-Sebastia community of Yerevan, was killed during a shootout with Azerbaijani forces in Yeraskh on July 14. The incident received international feedback. During a meeting with the acting Prime Minister Nikol...
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...