Artur Sakunts commented on the murder case of children, “We’ll have more such cases”
00:00, September 12, 2011 | Press Release | Children's rights, Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Right to Life
“You periodically address sectarians by protecting their rights. In this case, according to the killer-mother’s friends, the woman was a sectarian. As a human rights activist, are you going to comment on the right to life of the murdered children, as let’s say, you protect the rights of murdered soldiers?”As a response to the question posed by Tert.am reporter, Artur Sakunts, Head of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor said he would simply address the issue in general.
He noted, “The law-enforcing bodies in fact investigate the case, while the atmosphere of this culture of violence is very disturbing when there are such cases. What is the deference, Arman Yengibaryan, whom the Police killed instead of neutralizing, the ever-increasing death cases at detention facilities, the case of Aghasi Abrahamyan and etc.
It means this culture of general violence, where dreadful cases occur, is not an issue of separate cases to deal with.” According to him, the point is that the human being in our country is not considered as the highest value. “This is not a philosophy; it is particularly so much materialized that you face it every moment. This is a mania of destroying the personality,” said Sakunts. He also included suicides in the atmosphere of culture of violations. “When a person wants to commit a suicide, he/she does it out of impotence. It is a global issue”, he noted.
The human rights activists added that the right is materialized in the field of specific relations, and if the human, his/her dignity and the goal of caring and supporting the latter do not constitute the decisions and projects of state authorities and governmental bodies, then the latter is humiliated. “Eventually, these children were under the mother’s supervision. But if the neighbors say that the mother behaved strangely recently, then let me ask “Don’t we have social workers that will support the family (not control)?” There was also another case in Vanadzor, when the mother strangled the child: “We will still have such cases, unless systemic approach is implied”, stated Sakunts.