{"id":273506,"date":"2016-07-05T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273506"},"modified":"2016-07-05T10:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T06:57:58","slug":"136-servicemen-died-in-armenia-and-karabakh-in-first-half-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/07\/05\/136-servicemen-died-in-armenia-and-karabakh-in-first-half-of-year.html","title":{"rendered":"136 Servicemen Died in Armenia and Karabakh in First Half of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t136 servicemen of Armenia&#39;s Armed Forces and Nagorno-Karabakh&#39;s Defense Army &#8211; among them military conscripts, contract soldiers and volunteers who participated in the early April &ldquo;four-day war&rdquo; &ndash; died in the first half of 2016, according to a report issued by the Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office (HCAV) on July 4.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t77 of the total of 136 servicemen, HCAV said, died during the four days of intense fighting along the contact line of Karabakh-Azerbaijani armed forces; the remaining deaths were attributed by military officials to a group of causes &ndash; suicide, breach of combat duty rules, natural disaster, etc. 119 of the deaths occurred on the territory of NKR, and the remaining 17 &ndash; in Armenia.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCompared to the same period last year, the report noted, the rate of servicemen&#39;s deaths has risen by nearly four times: in the first six months of 2015, the Armenian armed forces and the NKR defense army had reported 34 deaths.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe report also presented data for the last 3 years, stating that 114 of the total of 288 servicemen &#8211; &nbsp;nearly 40 percent &#8211; died in non-hostile circumstances, while the remaining 174 were killed in ceasefire violations.&nbsp;<\/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>77 of the total of 136 servicemen, HCAV said, died during the four days of intense fighting along the contact line of Karabakh-Azerbaijani armed forces; the remaining deaths were attributed by military officials to a &#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":270414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18898,10329,12009,60175,13901,11083,11838,60584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273506"}],"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=273506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}