HUMILIATING ALTERNATIVE SERVICE

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| 15:40:04 | 20-05-2005 | Social |

“The young people are forced to look after disabled people, to
cut nails, to wash a dead body, etc, etc, so what? These are not
humiliating works are all. If they are Christians, they must bear
it. Jesus Christ too washed the feet of his apostles”, said Artemis
Lepejyan, head of the non-governmental organization “Saint Sandoukht”
during the discussions of the alternative military service.

As for how an 18-year-old boy can wash a body, the woman was not
interested in it. Filaret Belikyan, representative of the Republican
Party was not interested in it either; moreover, he said that
the soldiers simply want to avoid their service. He reproached the
organizers of the discussion and particularly the authors of the film
“Alternative Military Service” where the alternative servers expressed
their ideas about their service. He said that the organizers do not
have full data about the issue and the film was one-sided.

In answer to him, Avetik Ishkhanyan advised not to make a speech of
patriotism but to get acquainted with the result of the monitoring
realized by them. Filaret Belikyan said he would by all means.