Serviceman’s mother asks to save her son’s life: “Do not show national discrimination” (video)
Woman, asking the Government for help, is taking one pill after another. Expecting to meet with officials, the serviceman’s mother is spending hours outside the Government building, “I ask to help my son; do not show national origin discrimination.” Before the April War, Asya Hasanyan, woman of Yazidi origin living in Gyumri, had heard only good news of her son Arthur Hasanyan serving in the army, “Blast of grenade hit my son’s spine, his leg started aching, he fainted in the front line and fellow servicemen helped him.” The soldier, who was wounded in the positions, is now at the hospital of Red Cross. It was impossible to arrange treatment in Stepanakert. According to the words of the woman, the health condition of her son deteriorated due to the leadership of the army, “The Ministry was negligent, now my son’s leg nerve is damaged.” For organizing Arthur Hasanyan’s treatment abroad the serviceman’s mother turned to Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, when the latter was in Gyumri within the frames of pre-election campaign of the Republican Party. She hasn’t received a reply for months, “They will probably show national origin discrimination; what kind of illness is it that they cannot treat it? I gave them my healthy son, now let’s them treat him.” The answers from the Ministry of Defense don’t satisfy the woman, too, “When I go to meet with Vigen Sargsyan, I am told that he isn’t free to meet with me.” Artsrun Hovhannisyan, press secretary of the Ministry of Defense, assured us that Arthur Hasanyan is under permanent control of medics. He also rejected Asya Hasanyan’s claim that the Ministry of Defense was negligent, as a result of which her son’s health condition deteriorated.
