SHOCKING INCIDENT IN ARMENIAN ARMY: LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SAVAGELY PUNISHED
H. Hamidov

Today
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May 6 2010
Azerbaijan

"The Armenian army is like Wonderland. You disappear once you get
there."

The author of this quatrain about the Armenian army, which can easily
be found on the Internet, was likely a young man who once served
there. Like anyone else, he knows the plight of the local army, which
is constantly praised by Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.

Armenian media regularly reports on the disastrous situation in the
Armenian army, all sorts of abuses, bullying, crimes against soldiers
and frequent escapes. However, the news released later, certainly
surprised even seasoned military officers and soldiers.

Armenian press reported that a lieutenant colonel of the Armenian
armed forces, commander of a battalion of the Armavir military unit,
was hospitalized in a military hospital in Yerevan with four stab
wounds. The Military Prosecutor’s Office confirmed this fact. A
criminal case on the grounds of an attempted suicide was launched
right after the incident.

It later turned out that on the day of the incident, the military
unit’s management instructed to "punish the battalion commander for
his offensive remarks about Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian." They
could have punished him, for example, by reducing his already meager
salary, demoting him, dismissing him or even putting him on tribunal.

But the wise men of the army decided to act differently, in their
usual perverted manner.

The commander was tied to a chair and soldiers were told to shout
insulting things at him while passing by. Not wishing to suffer
humiliation, the colonel somehow freed his hands and stabbed himself
with a knife four times.

The news is certainly shocking and once again testifies to the lack
of rule of law and disorder in the Armenian army. It is high time
Ohanian dealt with them instead of using his regular harangue on the
combat capability of the Armenian army.

The army of any other country will hardly treat its officer this
way for criticizing the minister. The officer was subject to inhuman
punishment by his senior officers who wear the same uniform and the
same insignia.

Certainly, only a handful of people in the Armenian army have any
idea about honor and dignity. If you take into account that top
officials largely consist of Karabakh bandits who once fired at
peaceful inhabitants from behind the bushes, it becomes clear that
the story leaked to the Armenia media was hardly true. After all,
this story has quite a lot of contradictions.

For instance, why did the officer who set himself free by some miracle
decide to inflict four stab wounds on his body? It would be more
reasonable if he attacked on his attackers with a knife. How could
the colonel, whose hands were tied up, have a knife?

Maybe the story is quite different and the "suicide attempt" is a
version intended for the public. True, if they actually planned to
insult the colonel in a chair or decided to simply kill him, this
shows the lawlessness and anarchy prevailing in the Armenian army.

So, next time when Ohanian decides to rattle the sabre and praise his
army, he should at least in advance ask whether embarrassing cases
took place in the army…

Nevertheless, the minister’s reluctance to inquire about such facts
in advance is understandable as they have become an integral part of
routine for the Armenian army.