SOCIOLOGIST: ARMENIA IS THE 56TH BY THE NUMBER OF DELIBERATE MURDERS IN THE WORLD

by Marat Kadamyan

Tuesday, February 10, 16:23

Armenia has occupied the 56th place in the world by the number
of deliberate murders, director of the “Sociometer” centre
for sociological research, Aharon Adibelyan, said at today’s
press-conference.

“The total of 73 murders were registered in Armenia in 2014, 20 of
which the grave ones. There are numerous reasons of such a number of
murder cases in our country. In particular, first of all, I mean the
high level of aggression in the Armenian society stemming from the
social reasons. Unfortunately, sometimes this aggression has harmful
consequences”, -he said.

The second reason is self-abandonment of many potential murderers,
which sometimes feel sorry after committing a crime. The third reason
is today’s Armenian mentality which supposes settlement of conflicts
through violence.

The sociologist thinks that upbringing of people since their tender
age is panacea that may promote to avert violence and murder cases
in Armenia.

To recall, according to UNODC report for 2014, 2,8 cases of murder for
100 thsd people were registered in Armenia, 2 cases in Azerbaijan,
4 – in Georgia and 11,2 – in Russia. African countries occupy the
first places of the “rating”.