Sasun Mikaelyan: Defense Minister’s resignation not to improve army

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan’s resignation will not improve the situation in the army.

“The situation in the army greatly distresses me. In a young army like that there must not be such incidents. However, the situation in the army is not quite connected with the minister but rather with the system itself,” Sasun Mikaelyan, commander of Sasun detachment told a press conference in Yerevan. He added that for the army to function properly the countries authority system should first function properly. According to him one minister’s resignation will not change anything. Here he stressed that unity between society and authorities can prevent new incidents.

Recently the Armenian society has come to sharply react to army incidents. Particularly violent was the reaction with regard to serviceman Aghasi Abrahamyan’s case.

On August 26, Aghasi Abrahamyan, born 1992, was brought unconscious to a military hospital, where he died later. Later, medical examination resealed marks of violence on the soldier’s body. On Septmeber 6 two officers have been arrested as result of investigation into the death of serviceman Aghasi Abrahamyan. The officers were detained in accordance with article 375 of Armenian Criminal Code (misuse of authority, administrative dereliction) stipulating for 2-13 years of imprisonment.