{"id":260833,"date":"2014-12-10T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T13:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=260833"},"modified":"2014-12-10T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T13:24:34","slug":"armenian-war-veteran-attacked-by-4-masked-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/12\/10\/armenian-war-veteran-attacked-by-4-masked-men.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian War Veteran Attacked by 4 Masked Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Today, at around 10am, four masked men attacked and beat veteran and Union of Veterans&#39;&nbsp;board member Suren Sargsyan, writes Azatutyun Radio. Sargsyan is currently at the Erebuni medical center.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The medical center informed Azatutyun that the veteran received a craniocerebral injury, is in stable condition and that his life is not in danger.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In an interview with the radio station Suren Sargsyan said he considered the incident as a way to keep veterans silent and stressed that they are not scared and are not going to give up.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Yesterday, the media reported that two Karabakh war veterans and Union of Veterans&#39; members, Aparan squad commander Razmik Petrosyan and Arabo squad commander Manvel Yeghiazaryan were also beaten.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">After the latter incidents the Union released a statement noting that the attack was directed against the union&rsquo;s activities and intends to silence the veterans, who fight against unlawfulness, through terrorist acts.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Suren Sargsyan told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aravot.am\/2014\/12\/10\/523561\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Aravot.am<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;(ARM) that during the attack, the four men asked him &ldquo;do you even know who Mher of Tokhmakh is that you speak about him?&rdquo; The veteran, however, thought that the attackers were part of Serzh Sargsyan&rsquo;s gang, and not Republican Party MP Mher Sedrakyan&rsquo;s (aka Tokhmakhi Mher) sent men. According to him, the attackers gave those questions in order to distract him. The veteran noted that he was preparing to publish the veterans&#39; statement regarding MP Mher Sedrakyan&rsquo;s statement about Armenia&rsquo;s membership into the EEU. Earlier, Sedrakyan had stated that Armenia is used to living under occupation.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Photograph from <a href=\"http:\/\/araratnews.am\/%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%BF%D6%84-%D5%A7-%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%BD-%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%B6-%D6%84%D5%B7%D5%A5%D5%B6%D6%84-%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AF%D6%80%D5%AB%D6%81-%D5%BD\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Araratnews.am<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/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>After the latter incidents the Union released a statement noting that the attack was directed against the union\u2019s activities and intends to silence the veterans, who fight against unlawfulness, through terrorist acts&#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":260824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59189,59188,59191,59190,59187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260833"}],"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=260833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}