{"id":124760,"date":"2011-09-07T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=124760"},"modified":"2011-09-07T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:05:28","slug":"mentally-ill-soldier-called-to-service-despite-army-generals-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/07\/mentally-ill-soldier-called-to-service-despite-army-generals-order.html","title":{"rendered":"Mentally Ill Soldier Called to Service Despite Army General&#8217;s Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, when it was time for Hovhannes Vardanyan to be called to mandatory military service, Chief of Staff of Armenia&#8217;s Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Yuri Khachaturov, reviewing the documents Hovhannes presented to him, advised releasing the young man from duty, Hovhannes&#8217; father, Vardan Vardanyan, told Epress.am.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recall, Hovhannes was admitted into a psychiatric clinic in Yerevan&#8217;s Nork district last month after serving over a year of his two-year military service in Askeran, Nagorno-Karabakh. The now 19-year-old conscript claims that officers tried to beat and rape him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/07\/criminal-case-launched-into-abuse-allegations-of-soldier-admitted-to-psych-ward.html\">A criminal case was recently launched<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hovik was the only caregiver [breadwinner] in our household, and Khachaturov said go, keep your younger sister and mother \u2014 we won&#8217;t send you. Then about six months later, I get a call from the commissariat [saying] we have to take him; well, shouldn&#8217;t such a healthy, tall boy serve his homeland? I told the, you are holding Khachaturov&#8217;s order in contempt; they tell me, forgive us, but we&#8217;re going to take him,&#8221; said Vardan Vardanyan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hovhannes&#8217; father also stated that when he and his wife went to visit Hovhannes in the psychiatric clinic yesterday, they heard rumors that the staff were being pressured.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nurses were saying that they had all been pressured, on why had they allowed for [the public, the media] to come and film there. I don&#8217;t know who those people who are applying pressure are, but they are [just taking meaningless action],&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Armenia&#8217;s military police told him yesterday that Hovhannes&#8217; mental illness might have been passed down from his mother.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tell them, ok, but he served for 1 year and 2 months; well why wasn&#8217;t he crazy? He became crazy just now? Or fine, that he&#8217;s ill, but what about the bruises, the traces on his body \u2014 how did those come about?&#8221; asked Hovhannes&#8217; father.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, when it was time for Hovhannes Vardanyan to be called to mandatory military service, Chief of Staff of Armenia&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31576,31574,31577,31575,26129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}