Former police officer Mkhitar Alumyan, along with his underage children – 12-year-old Gayane and 10-year-old Karine – declared an indefinite hunger strike this morning and will not leave the vicinity of the building of the police, unless he is paid the 2.5 million AMD he is entitled to. During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Mkhitar Alumyan told that he had worked in the State Police Patrol Company and the police had not paid for his overtime work in all these years, explaining as if the journals, in which the duty hours were registered, were gone.
Today Meruzhan Hakobyan, an assistant to Vladimir Gasparyan, the chief of police, received Alumyan and, according to Alumyan, not only did he not support the police officer, but he threatened the latter, “He offended me in front of my child and said ‘if you carry on like this, we will make your life miserable.’ I have been a police officer for 15 years and I know what they want to do – they want to make me go ballistic, not to withstand their threats, make a mistake, either to say something wrong, in order that they may make up a case against me, or to consider me a madman, or to put me into jail for offending a police officer. And I left the office of the assistant to the chief of police without saying anything.”
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According to Alumyan, 10 days ago he was received at the Presidential Palace and promised that his problem would be resolved, “They have addressed my application to the police, which says that they have no grounds to give me my wage. They owe me 4.5 million altogether, they gave me $5000 in January, they still owe 2 million, moreover, they called me and told me to write that I had no demands and they would gradually pay the rest. I trusted them and signed; now they say there are no grounds. If they don’t owe me, why did they give me those $5000?”
After he was received by the chief of police today, a police officer approached Mkhitar Alumyan and said that chief of police Vladimir Gasparyan expressed a wish to give him 100-150 thousand AMD in aid, but as Mkhitar said, he refused and told him to give that money to another needy family, he needed the wage he was entitled to and had earned with his honest work. In Alumyan’s words, 2 underage children who have been next to their father since morning, have eaten only 1 pack of cookies and all 5 children, the youngest of which is 4 months old, sleep half-hungry.
Nelly BABAYAN
