168 Zham: NKR Defense Minister explains army suicide causes
NKR Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan dwelt on the topic of army suicides in an interview with 168 Zham.
“Today’s youth does not accept a lie. If someone tells a lie once and his friends know it, he becomes a second-sort man. We should explain to soldiers that it is wrong. The second cause is that a serviceman finds himself in a certain situation when he starts to think that military service is impermissible for him. At that moment, he thinks it’s better to shoot himself than to carry the burden of military service for two years. In the army, that is an impermissible phenomenon, a result of omissions. Such people are weaklings…”