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14:47 18/08/06

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF JAMANAK YEREVAN ADMITS HIS GUILT

The court hearing of Aram Babajanyan, editor-in-chief of Jamanak
Yerevan, kicked off at Kentron and Nork Marash First Instance
Court. Babajanyan is charged for evasion of military service via
faking and stealing documents.

Babajanyan admitted that he had faked documents to evade military
service but refused to admit that he had also stolen documents. During
the hearing, Babajanyan said, "I admit my fault and am sorry about it."

Babajanyan told that he received a right to postpone military service
for one year while studying at Seven Spiritual School. Due to the death
of Garegin A, his diploma thesis was prolonged. By the time, Babajanyan
got disappointed from the spiritual life and left for USA in 1998. In
2001, he was accepted at the International Relations Department at the
California University. He came back to Armenia to settle his military
service issues. "A man came to me at the military commissariat and
promised me to help with military service." Then he again left for
USA. "The interesting thing was that I was not in search," Babajanyan
said. He then faked documents of his friend Vahe Hakobyan, and came
back to Armenia as a father of children./Panorama.am/