“Today, it was a good day for me, everything was going as planned. I recited the poem to my father at school, and deserved my teachers’ praise. I was very happy of hearing teachers’ warm words to me. It seemed to me that it is one of my happiest days. But, at the end of the classes, during the subject of military sciences I was beaten by Major Grigoryan,” yesterday in the evening Shant Harutyunyan’s son Shahen Harutyunyan posted a note with this content. It becomes clear from the note that the main reason for the beating was that Shahen objected to the teacher’s arguments that “we have never been independent, were not and will not be, and it is good, because we can not have life without Russia, that our fedayeen (volunteer militant) that were deceased was in vain, that the Russians is our “daddy”, we are slaves, Armenia cannot exist without Russia.” Shahen was telling that “he approached and strong hit my chest. I kicked him. He kicked me back, and I struck his head with a chair. Otherwise, he was going to kill me. I hit him and came out of the classroom. All school students were shocked. And then they told me that after my leaving the classroom major has try to discredit me by saying that I inseminate anti-Armenian spirit. I returned home. P.S. I will be submitting this note to the school principle tomorrow morning.” Aravot.am asked for clarification from Yervand Sargsyan, school principle of No. 139 School. He conveyed the following, “They both applied to the police with a complaint, now it will become clear who is to blame. The article clearly states that I was at a meeting at that time, they had gone and I learned about it in the morning, now I will get involved in the case.” Mr. Sargsyan said that Shahen has not given him a letter yet. To our questions of whether similar problems arise earlier between Shahen and the teacher, the School principle said, “Shahen is in our school since November. Meantime, he has moved to another class. I have not seen any individual negative extraordinary things. I have not seen a problem with the teacher.” We asked whether the teacher was a good one, the principle replied, “Normal”. As for the progress of the case, he said, “It’s the police’s task; we can say nothing about it.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
P.S. The message of RA Police official report about the incident: “On February 4, at 19.55 pm, Hrachya G. born in 1957 has applied to the Nor Nork police department, and reported that on the same day, at about 14.05 pm, one of school students of No. 139 high school, Sh. H., born in 1999, has hit his head with the chair at the classroom of military training, causing injury. On the same day, at 21:30 pm, Sh. H. reported to the police that at about 14.00 pm, Hrachya G., the instructor of military training of No. 139 high school, has twice hit him in his chest during the lesson on military sciences, causing a physical pain. A forensic examination is appointed.”
