ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PROMISES LAWYER TO KILLED SOLDIER’S FAMILY

Tert.am
10.11.11

Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan held a meeting recently
with a group of parents whose children died in the army.

Following the meeting, Minister Ohanyan ordered the relevant department
to re-examine the killed soldiers’ cases. Following the Nov. 10
government sitting, Minister Ohanyan talked to the soldiers’ parents.

Talking to Tert.am, Susanna Galstyan, who was among the parents
received by Minister Ohanyan, said that many of the facts she had
cited at the meeting proved a surprise for the minister. Minister
Ohanyan promised Mrs. Galstuyan to employ a lawyer to represent her
family’s interests, with the government to pay for his services. “I
have changed my opinion and understand now that the minister is
concerned as well,” Galstyan said.

Hasmik Hovhannisyan succeeded in getting her killed son’s case
re-examined. The case was referred to Yerevan and the Shengavit minor
court is to start considering it on Nov. 16. “We hope the case will
be disclosed. I will not stop my protest until I have all those guilty
punished,” she said.