Homicide rate increased fourfold in Armenia Army in 2016

  07 October 2016    Read: 2376
Homicide rate increased fourfold in Armenia Army in 2016
The number of homicides increased fourfold in the January to September period of 2016 in Armenia`s Armed Forces and, going up to 12 killings from the 3 cases recorded in the same period of 2015, while the suicide rate increased twofold – 5 and 10 cases in 2015 and 2016, respectively, according to a report published by the Helsinki Citizens` Assembly Vanadzor Office (HCAV) told on Oct 4, AzVision.az reports citing Armenian Media.

A total of 146 servicemen – among them conscripts, contract soldiers and volunteers who participated in the early April “four-day war” – died in the studied period, the report said.

77 of the 146 servicemen, according to HCAV, died during the four days of intense fighting along the contact line contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops; the remaining deaths were attributed by military officials to a group of causes – suicide, breach of combat duty rules, natural disaster, etc. 126 of the deaths occurred on the territory of occupied Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh, and the remaining 20 – in Armenia.

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