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HCA Vanadzor continues compiling information on missing persons and those killed as a result of military hostilities on the night of April 1, 2016.

As of April 13, 2016, according to the data gathered from the relatives of the victims, who had applied to the organization, social networks,  media outlets, and official information sources, 86 persons died and the names and surnames have been verified. The works of data collection on their death circumstances are underway and will be in progress.

The death trigger of two servicemen, Suren Artur Aramyan and Grigor Hermon Avetisyan, who died on April 6, was interpersonal relations.

On April 5 on his way back from the shift handover Private contractual soldier Karen Davtyan collapsed down due to the snowfall from the mountains, as a result of which the young man appeared in a rapid flow of snow and tumbling down for over 100 meters, ended up dying.

Vardan Levik Matevosyan was among the killed servicemen, who died on April 8, when “URAL” mark vehicle, belonging to one of the MoD military units, went off the main road to Armash village in Ararat marz and tumbled down 200 meters into the gorge.

Conscript Private Garnik Hamlet Avetisyan was squeezed between towed and towing “ZIL -131” vehicles on April 11, and shortly died on the way to Dilijan Medical Centre.

As far as the information on the location and fate of the missing persons is considered, it should be noted that as of April 12, the number of missing persons on the Organization’s database was 10. The Organization received a phone call from one of the RA Military Commissariats regarding the list of victims provided by the organization to media outlets on April 12, and attempted to verify the veracity   those data. The Organization was contacted from the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the NK DA press secretary, who aimed to understand the validity of the information about the enlisted persons. The Organization explained that as long as the relatives of enlisted servicemen had no information about their soldiers, the latter should be deemed missing. In the meantime, explanations were provided that it was the right of the enlisted servicemen’s relatives to possess the relevant information for which the state authorities held responsibility. The list of missing persons before April 12 was sent to the latter. After subsequent verifications the state authorities informed the Organization that 9 out of the 10 enlisted missing persons were alive and were in their service site in the same battalion. It was merely due to technical challenges that their relatives were not notified in a timely manner.  The information on the aforementioned persons was also provided to the NK Government representative.

After obtaining official data our Organization provided relevant information to the relatives of those nine servicemen.

We believe that the RA Ministry of Defense and Defense Army will make sure those servicemen contact their relatives in a possibly short term in order to ensure the latter’s’ right to information about the fate of their serviceman. Such information has also an apparent psychological importance for the serviceman and his relatives.

See also: hcav.am