{"id":275714,"date":"2016-11-24T17:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275714"},"modified":"2016-11-24T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:10:34","slug":"parents-of-dead-armenian-soldier-do-not-trust-governments-military-compensation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/11\/24\/parents-of-dead-armenian-soldier-do-not-trust-governments-military-compensation-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"Parents of Dead Armenian Soldiers Do Not Trust Government&#8217;s Military Compensation Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The parents of several Armenian soldiers who regularly hold protest demonstrations outside state institutions demanding thorough and fair investigations into their sons&#39; non-combat deaths denounced today the recently introduced <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/11\/17\/military-benefits-bill-passed-by-parliament.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">government bill<\/span><\/a><\/strong> seeking a new tax for raising social benefits paid to the families of servicemen killed or seriously injured in action. According to the bill, the program will be financed from a fund to which every working Armenian citizen will be obligated to contribute 1,000 drams (about $2) per month.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe parents, who had gathered outside the government offices on Thursday morning, expressed skepticism over the plan, insisting that the citizens&#39; contribution would hardly serve their actual purpose. &ldquo;Look what&#39;s happening here! Let these officials [finance the program] with the money they have already looted and not ask for more from this poor people! These 1000 drams will also go to their pocket; they&#39;ll label the soldiers&#39; deaths a suicide and take the money,&rdquo; Irina Ghazaryan, the mother of conscript Artur Ghazaryan who died while serving in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2010, told reporters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe woman also commented on Armenia&#39;s new Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan&#39;s promise to meet with the parents and discuss each of the cases individually. Since then, according to her, Davtyan has only met with soldier Valery Muradyan&#39;s mother, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/11\/09\/armenias-new-prosecutor-general-promises-to-resume-investigation-into-soldiers-non-combat-death.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">Nana Muradyan<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, while others are still waiting for their turn. &ldquo;I don&#39;t understand what they are waiting for. They are not going to discover anything new; Artur Davtyan, along with everyone else there, is well aware of our cases. But I promise, whatever they do, I will fight for the truth to the end.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the protest action, Ghazaryan saw Deputy Prosecutor General Armen Harutyunyan entering the main government building and tried to follow him inside. However, her entry was prevented by a government security officer, who also took away her son&#39;s photo from the woman&#39;s hands and tore it to pieces. When Ghazaryan complained about the incident to other law enforcement officers, the latter denied that such a thing had happened.<\/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>The parents, who had gathered outside the government offices on Thursday morning, expressed skepticism over the plan, insisting that the citizens&#8217; contribution would hardly serve their actual purpose. \u201cLook what&#8217;s happening &#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":275711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984],"tags":[60540,10329,12009,50558,36189,12336,23784,12998,18518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275714"}],"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=275714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}