Parents and relatives of missing soldiers and POWs protested in front of the government building on Wednesday. They are disappointed and think that the government is deceiving them. A police chain was formed near the government building. The captives’ parents met with Gagik Isakhanyan, the Prime Minister’s assistant.
Speaking to reporters, Isakhanyan began to criticize the media for manipulating the parents’ grief. In response to the question about who in the government deals with the problems of prisoners and missing persons, he answered, “There is an interdepartmental commission and all relevant structures and managers are involved.” He did not answer whether the government was aware that 5 prisoners would return. Isakhanyan responded to the observation that this is a matter of public interest. “This is not a public issue. When parents went to search during the war, risking their lives, no one in the public came to say, ‘Dear parent, you are going on a search.’ The public should be informed as much as the parents allow grief to come out of their family. ”
The journalists reported that the parents did not receive the answer to their questions from the government: where are their children, are they captured, where are they? Isakhanyan again did not want to answer.
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“There is no desire to answer. I only maintain justice and the Armenian character. I have been with these parents from the first day. I have participated in every activity everywhere. That is why I say, I ask and I demand, and there are other media outlets that manipulate the grief of parents. Parents discuss their grief, you come and ask me a question. Let me say one thing: I have witnessed myself because of the media, the hidden children have been found, killed and given to us, to me personally. I was there. They personally brought me the children with dog chains wrapped around their necks because the media at the time wanted to show how much information they had. I ask and demand. The fate of these children is just some TV news for you, just some family’s grief.”
Hripsime Jebejyan
