{"id":280859,"date":"2017-05-30T17:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=280859"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:55:48","slug":"mothers-of-dead-armenian-soldiers-hold-demonstration-outside-parliament-to-remind-newly-elected-mps-about-their-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/05\/30\/mothers-of-dead-armenian-soldiers-hold-demonstration-outside-parliament-to-remind-newly-elected-mps-about-their-sons.html","title":{"rendered":"Mothers of Dead Armenian Soldiers Hold Demonstration Outside Parliament to Remind Newly Elected MPs About Their Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The mothers<\/a><\/span><\/strong> of several Armenian soldiers who died in the army in peacetime gathered on Tuesday outside the National Assembly building in Yerevan to remind the MPs of the newly formed parliament about their sons\u2019 long-neglected cases. When entering the NA building, however, most of the lawmakers kept their eyes averted and did not acknowledge the women, who stood there, all holding portraits of their sons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese lawmakers have to understand after all that this issue cannot be ignored. We will not allow them to quietly enjoy their seats; they are obliged to solve the murders of these soldiers. The culprits must be punished in order to finally end the slaughter in the army,\u201d Nana Muradyan, mother of Valery Muradyan who died in a Nagorno-Karabakh military unit in 2010, \u00a0told our reporter.<\/p>\n

Tigran Ohanjanyan<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u2019s mother Gohar Sargsyan, for her part, stated that from now on, they were going to present their demands solely to opposition lawmakers. \u201cI expect nothing from the Republicans; everything is clear there, they are criminals, traitors and murderers. We\u2019ll turn to the oppositionists – Nikol Pashinyan and his [Yelk] bloc, for example. Let\u2019s see what they can do about the fact that none of lawmakers\u2019 children actually serves in the army. I\u2019ve been demanding for a year that they show me a child of at least one oligarch or MP who took part in the April [2016] fighting in Karabakh. They have, naturally, failed to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree prosecutors have been replaced over the past 10 years, but the cases into our sons\u2019 deaths stand still. We will not stop coming here, and if we do not manage to make sure that our sons\u2019 murderers are punished, the five of us will disgrace these authorities in front of the whole world!\u201d Sargsyan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These lawmakers have to understand after all that this issue cannot be ignored. We will not allow them to quietly enjoy their seats…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984,66058],"tags":[12996,10329,12009,10330,36189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280859"}],"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=280859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}