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    SOME PEOPLE DON'T SURVIVE
    Naira Hayrumyan

    Lragir.am News
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23163.html
    13:41:00 - 31/08/2011

    Tomorrow, the first protest of the Army Without Murderers Initiative
    will be held in front of the House of Government. More than 500 people
    have joined it.

    Tomorrow is the day of the next session of the government. Sessions,
    as a rule, are accompanied with protests of families of servicemen
    killed at peace time, owners of expropriated kiosks who were left
    jobless, as well as other social and civil groups.

    Usually, protests are not populous though sometimes they are marked
    by clashes with the police. The presence of protesters in front of
    the House of Government gets on the nerves of the ministers. Some of
    them try to avoid protesters, they walk by without looking at them,
    whereas there have been cases when the protesters were shown the
    gesture with three fingers. The number of people at the House of
    Government could be a handy tool.

    The recently revived discussion on the army caused a new wave
    of protest. Though, some people insist it as an anti-army and
    anti-patriotic movement, the Facebook group is not against the army,
    it is against cruel murderers serving there.

    The recent deaths of servicemen shocked the society. More and more
    people demand resignation of the Minister of Defense. The Minister
    had to describe the latest case as murder. As of now, almost all the
    cases have been qualified as caused suicides, though nobody has been
    prosecuted for causing to commit a suicide.

    If the army leadership covers up those who beat soldiers to death or
    cause them to commit a suicide, it means it needs these people. No
    accident, no official statistics on murders and suicides in the army
    has ever appeared in press, which would enable tracking dynamics
    of occurrences and drawing conclusions on the efficiency of the
    leadership.

    Any incident in the army is a tragedy, but it is obvious that among
    hundreds of thousands of men such incidents are inevitable. The
    question is whether any steps are taken to reduce these cases,
    whether the number of these cases decreases or increases, whether
    the army leadership is interested in revelation of criminals and in
    protection of rights of servicemen.

    Unfortunately, the army leadership discloses no statistics. As far
    as we know, the Ministry of Defense has refused a NGOs request for
    statistics referring to military confidentiality.

    What military confidentiality could be there if press reports such
    cases almost every day? The fact that they hide statistics causes
    suspicion that incidents tend to grow, while the army leadership is
    reluctant to sign under this statistics.

    Some steps to prevent violence in the army are, of course, undertaken.

    Most officers admit they hold their breath as their home telephone
    rings, fearing to hear news on another suicide or mockery. The greater
    part of officers, each with their own conscience and outlook, tries
    to establish order in their units. But they understand that something
    is wrong with the foundation of the system.

    The army where young men are supposed to defend their homeland is a
    prison of low security where young men are allegedly taught how to
    "survive". But sometimes the experience of survival leads to a trauma,
    revenge, an inhibition, and some people just don't survive.

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