As we have informed, a clash took place between the mothers of servicemen who died in the army and Khachik Asryan, the head of the Armenian Eagles NGO, outside the Government Building today. Mr. Asryan told www.aravot.am how the conflict had started, “I was walking by the Government Building and noticed the mothers who had lost their sons and whom I respected and still respect deeply. You cannot imagine how astonished I was, when seeing me, those mothers started to make offensive remarks and use offensive phrases about my Armenian Eagles, they were yelling… I was caught by surprise; they were saying that ‘the Armenian Eagles are jackals, they kill our sons and you keep silent…’ and stuff like that. I couldn’t pass by unconcernedly, I turned around, approached them and asked ‘are you acquainted with my activities to make such remarks
and use such phrases?’ A few parents holding pictures started to use impolite phrases and I was looking silently and listening surprisedly, then the police officers interfered, but I told the police officers that ‘I can speak to them, there is no problem, let me listen to them,’ and continued talking to them, repeating that ‘do you know Khachik Asryan to show such an attitude toward a man who has stood by the army all of his life, from one trench to another? Why do you curse me like that?’”
Mr. Asryan said that the mothers who had lost their sons had never applied to him regarding their problem before, but he would meet with the parents once again in the short-run, would understand their problems and would support as much as he could.
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