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MP Tigran Abrahamyan from the opposition With Honor faction on Friday expressed serious concern over the recent incident in a military unit in the town of Kapan, in which one of the soldiers was mistreated and suffered injuries.

“As far as I understand, the serviceman is still out of the military unit and his family refuses to send him back,” he wrote on Facebook.

Given that the details of the incident are not known yet, the lawmaker refrained from making further comments on its possible reasons and those responsible for it, but he raised a number of key issues related to the military.

“First, incidents caused by non-statutory relationships continue in the army, while the leadership of the Defense Ministry and the army’s General Staff do not take tangible and appropriate measures in this regard,” Abrahamyan said.

“Second, the dominance of negative phenomena affecting the army and passed from the society lies at the basis of such incidents. At different stages various mechanisms have been used to contain them, but at present they fail badly.

“Regardless of the circumstances of the involvement of individual servicemen, officers or the serviceman identified as a victim in the case, this is a systemic problem, which cannot be resolved in an episodic or intermediate form.

“Third, the balance in relationships between commanders and soldiers is upset, making such incidents inevitable,” the MP noted.