The participant in the Four-day War in April has applied to the Court on the matter of making a record of his participation in the military actions in his military ID
18:32, November 9, 2017 | News, Own news | Rights of Soldiers/Recruits | Armed Forces
Several months ago a number of participants in the Four-day War in April raised the alarm about the fact that there had been no corresponding records in their military IDs indicating that they had participated in the military actions and in some cases the existing records had been erased or made invalid with a pen of a different color.
It is noteworthy that the participants sounding the alarm were mainly the ones who were discharged in the winter of 2016 and the ones who served at the same time and at the same location and carried out the same work as those discharged in the summer of 2016. However, the latter had the corresponding records in their military IDs.
V. Sargsyan, the RA Minister of Defense, mentioned in an interview to armenpress.am that there had been hundreds of alerts received. In some cases, according to the Minsister, the issue had been solved in favor of the servicemen as mistakenly no records had been made in the military IDs.
In case of having a record in the military IDs in regard to participating in the military actions, the servicemen are given the opportunity to take advantage of certain privileges, including tuition fee discounts.
In regard to this matter, four servicemen have turned to HCA Vanadzor. Some of them have merely chosen to receive clarification of the issue.
HCA Vanadzor is now working on the cases of two of them. One of them, A. P., following the first six months of the military service, started serving in the NKR Defense Army’s Jabrail Military Unit, where he was during the Four-day War.
Since April 3, 2016, he had participated in the defense of the positions at the Lele Tepe height, following which he had been on duty for 68 days.
On July 18, 2016 A. P. was discharged but there was no record made on his participation in the military actions in his military ID.
On March 28, 2017 Syuzanna Soghomonyan, lawyer at HCA Vanadzor, undertaking the protection of A. P.’s rights, turned to the RA Defense Ministry in regard to receiving clarification and making a record in the military ID.
RA Military Commissioner H. Muradyan offered clarification of this matter on June 6, 2017.
As insisted by him, within the period between April 4 and May 23, 2016, Soldier A. P. was not on the front line and did not participate in the military actions. Therefore, there was no record made in his military ID on participating in military actions.
The same response was received from M. Hakobyan, Chief of the RA Armed Forces General Staff, when A. P.’s representative demanded through an administrative appeal to obligate the RA Military Commissioner to make a corresponding record in A.P.’s military ID.
Upon receiving a second rejection, S. Soghomonyan, A.P.’s representative lodged a claim to the Court, demanding that the RA Military Commissioner make a corresponding record in A.P.’s military ID.
The RA Administrative Court initiated proceedings on the case on September 23, 2017.