{"id":135202,"date":"2011-10-14T11:18:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T06:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=135202"},"modified":"2011-10-14T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T07:00:51","slug":"armenian-army-3-non-combat-deaths-in-5-days-activists-to-protest-outside-presidents-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/14\/armenian-army-3-non-combat-deaths-in-5-days-activists-to-protest-outside-presidents-residence.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Army: 3 Non-Combat Deaths in 5 Days. Activists to Protest Outside President&#8217;s Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another non-combat death in the army took place yesterday \u2014 Yerevan resident Aram Melkonyan, 21, died in one of the military units in the northern Armenian town of Idjevan. A civic initiative group known as the &#8220;Army in Reality&#8221; subsequently issued a statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last 5 days, 3 soldiers have killed themselves in the Armenian army [note: in Armenian, the word &#8220;suicide&#8221; is written &#8220;self-murder.&#8221; The statement thus writes the word this way &#8220;self-MURDER&#8221;].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recent victims:<br \/>\nOct. 9 \u2013 Vladimir Asatryan, 19, Kharberd resident<br \/>\nOct. 12 \u2013 Yurik Nersisyan, 19, Kharberd resident<br \/>\nOct. 13 \u2013 Aram Melkonyan, 21, Yerevan resident<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This list grows by the hour. We must take action now to stop this. The Supreme Commander in Chief [the country&#8217;s president] is obliged to guarantee that ALL our sons conscripted into the army return home alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a protest outside the presidential residence at 1 pm on Oct. 14.&#8221;<\/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>Another non-combat death in the army took place yesterday \u2014 Yerevan resident Aram Melkonyan, 21, died in one of the&#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":125206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33419,65942,20433,12009,18419,33420,33276,33376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135202"}],"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=135202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}