Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Violence Tools Have Been Improved

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Violence Tools Have Been Improved

    VIOLENCE TOOLS HAVE BEEN IMPROVED

    Interview with Arthur Sakunts, head of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly
    Vanadzor Office, member of Real Army Initiative

    Mr. Sakunts, there was another non-combat victim a few days ago,
    parents do not believe that it was a suicide. How will this issue be
    settled? Isn't murder the same as inducing to commit a suicide?

    Cover-up of a crime is also impunity. Humiliation of dignity,
    corruption, violence, fraud is covered up, not their revelation
    is limited. Methods have been elaborated so that the possibility of
    revealing is zero, now the instruments eliminating revelation of crimes
    are improved. Here comes the main issue: without political will and
    the rule of law there are two tendencies, the actions to prevent them
    and the actions to implement violations. The hierarchies which regulate
    life in prisons and the armed forces exist in parallel to the hierarchy
    which is provided by law. Hierarchies, procedures defined by law are
    declarative in nature. Issues are settled interpersonally, the methods
    of psychological pressure may have a deciding role for a person. There
    may be no traces of violence. Sometimes a citizen undergoes violence
    at a police station but cannot prove it because no bruises are left,
    they have learned how to hit so as not to leave any traces. In the
    army interpersonal settlements may have consequences because military
    service lasts for two years, and as a result of interpersonal relations
    a person appears in the state of a slave, and such treatment may make
    one sick and tired of life. The Criminal Code puts it as "inducing
    to suicide", which relieves the essence of a crime. This is violence
    itself, the tool of the same crime which deprives a person of life,
    and it is necessary to change the criminal policy fundamentally.

    Should some articles of the criminal code reviewed?

    Because one shoots oneself, the act of the person who induced one
    to that step should not be attenuated. This is real murder but the
    mechanics of murder, the tools of murder have been improved. There are
    specialists in the world who can diagnose psychological violence. We
    do not have such tools, we need to develop the methods of detecting,
    diagnosing, recording psychological and physical violence. I also
    proceed from the presumption of innocence that the investigative
    bodies want to reveal but they lack abilities. It repeats from case
    to case that the commander did not exercise due control, field manuals
    are not observed duly due to the quality of officers. In other words,
    small accidents are ignored but they accumulate and blast into death or
    murder. It is absurd to raise awareness and ensure better discipline,
    as the minister instructed a few days ago.

    The minister of defense was reappointed. Does it mean Serzh Sargsyan
    likes the style of the Ministry of Defense and expected such reforms
    there?

    No reforms have been carried out in the armed forces, reforms were
    only spoken about. The peacekeeping battalion can be considered a
    new achievement but not a reform because it is a separate unit which
    is formed in compliance with international standards. There are some
    cosmetic decisions while there were more non-combat victims in 2012
    than in 2011. Is reform when the eggs of the Ministry of Defense
    are sold in shops? Considering the high rate of violations of the
    ceasefire, how come the number of victims caused by them is only 18%
    of the rate of death in the army? This rate is evidence to lack of
    reforms in the army.

    Siranuysh Papyan 11:39 29/04/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/interview/view/29750

Working...
X