Lawyer: Disabled First Artsakh War veteran served with eviction  notice for service apartment

ArmInfo.  Vladik Khachatryan, a participant in the First Artsakh War who was forcibly displaced with his family from the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has been  served an eviction notice for his service apartment.  Artsakh lawyer  Roman Yeritsyan shared this information on his Facebook page. 

According to the lawyer, this is another inhumane and underhanded  action directed against the Artsakh military. Yeritsyan explained  that, according to the notification, Khachatryan must vacate the  45.5-square- meter service apartment allocated to him in 2007.

 "This notice was sent to an active participant of the Artsakh War,  who served as Artsakh's Deputy Minister of Defense in the 2000s,  holds the military rank of Major General since 2004, and is a  recipient of the NKR 'Order of the Combat Cross' 2nd Class, the Order  of Vardan Mamikonyan, and Armenia's Medals 'For Courage' and 'For  Military Merit.' He also served as Artsakh's Minister of Education  and Science from 2007 to 2012, Head of the Martakert Regional  Administration from 2012 to 2017, Director of the State Emergency  Service from 2017 to 2020, and Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer  of the Republic of Artsakh from 2020 to 2021," the lawyer noted in  this regard. 

Furthermore, Yeritsyan drew attention to the fact that Khachatryan  currently has a lifelong Group 2 disability, and the apartment is the  sole place of residence for him and his family members in Armenia.  "He is also the husband of Armine Mosyan's aunt (the daughter of  field commander Meruzhan Mosyan, who died in the 1993 Artsakh  Liberation War – ed.), a victim of the metro incident involving Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan," the lawyer noted.

In connection with this matter, Yeritsyan reported that a lawsuit has  been filed with the Administrative Court of Armenia demanding an  injunction to prohibit the Ministry of Defense of Armenia from  carrying out the aforementioned actions. This is not the first such  incident; Yeritsyan previously reported that the Armenian authorities  had sent similar eviction notices to other former Artsakh state  officials.