At a protest action held in front of the building of the Armenian government, forced migrants from the Kashatag District, who left their homes because of the war in the autumn of 2020, demanded to provide them with housing or adequately compensate for the damage. The protesters gave the Armenian authorities a week to prepare a response to the forced migrants.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on May 3, refugees from the Kashatag District held a protest action in front of the building of the Armenian government. They then demanded the implementation of the decisions on assistance to the forced migrants, which had already been approved by the government.

Today, the former residents of the Kashatag District have come to a protest action in front of the building of the Armenian government. The forced migrants demand a roof over their heads, says Zograp Rkhoyan, the editor of the Kashatag regional newspaper. “Our demand is to be provided with houses, since we lost them through no fault of our own. Today, about 20 families live in the city of Abovyan in extremely difficult conditions, but the authorities are evicted them from there too,” claimed Zograp Rkhoyan as quoted by the “Yerevan.Today”. Rent payments have risen and the amount provided to the forced migrants to pay for housing is not enough, protesters add.

The protesters claim that their demands are not political in nature, and they give the country’s authorities a week to respond. About 13,000 residents, or about 3000 families, had to leave Kashatag, the “Sputnik Armenia” reports with reference to the participants of the protest action.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on September 2, 2021 at 05:00 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.