Epress.am News from Armenia
Karabakh War veteran Hakob Tadevosyan, with his wife and four children on Wednesday began a sit-in outside the presidential palace. He wants a clear response in writing as to when it will be his turn for an apartment. Tadevosyan also appealed to the Armenian president a month ago but has not yet received a response. The Hrazdan municipality offered the veteran to pay the rent on the house, but he refused.
"I'm not asking for much. Let them give me my turn; [tell] me what number I am [on the list]; and when it will be my turn to get an apartment. I want it in writing because tomorrow or the day after [when] the chief changes, he doesn't say you don't get an apartment or you still have long to wait till it's your turn," Tadevosyan told Epress.am.
He said that the RA Ministry of Defense's Social Security Department for Military Personnel urged him to live in his ancestral home; meanwhile, according to Tadevosyan, that house was not bequeathed to him.
According to Tadevosyan, when he was delivering his appeal, he was threatened to be removed from the area by force. Then Tadevosyan's family was approached by two police officers of the Kotayk Regional Police — in civilian clothes. The officers persuaded Tadevosyan to go with them to Hrazdan.
Recall, another family is also staging a sit-in across from the presidential palace. Etchmiadzin resident Ashot Khudoyan, also with his wife and four children, resumed his sit-in last month. Khudoyan believes his grandfather's will was forged, leaving him out of the will, and he is asking high-ranking officials to review the regional investigator's decision to quash his case.