{"id":135078,"date":"2011-10-13T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=135078"},"modified":"2011-10-13T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:39:59","slug":"artists-tackle-non-combat-army-deaths-through-work-posted-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/13\/artists-tackle-non-combat-army-deaths-through-work-posted-on-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Artists Tackle Non-Combat Army Deaths through Work Posted on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographer German Avagyan<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> and graphic designer Varpet Onik (Hovhannisyan)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> have uploaded a few photo-based art works on their respective Facebook pages following the second reported case of suicide in the Armenian army this past week.<\/p>\n

As previously reported<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>, according to an official statement by the Armenian defense ministry, on Oct. 12, in one of the military units in Nagorno-Karabakh in the north, Armenian conscript Yurik Nersisyan, 19, while on duty on the front line, shot and killed himself with his own gun.<\/p>\n

While, on Oct. 9, another draftee, Vladimir Asatryan, 19, also while on guard duty reportedly<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> shot and killed himself in another military unit also in Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n

Headline photo by German Avagyan reads “suicide” in Armenian which literally translates to “self-murder”. Avagyan has separated the two components with an emphasis on the word “murder”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The words “Self Defense Army” have been transposed with “Self-Murder [i.e. Suicide] Army”.
\n(Credit: German Avagyan)<\/p>\n

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Photo of Armenian defense minister Seyran Ohanyan. (Credit: German Avagyan)<\/p>\n

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“Whose child is next?”
\n(Credit: Varpet Onik)<\/p>\n

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“The region’s most efficient suicides army”
\n(Credit: Varpet Onik)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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