Minister of Defense confirmed Prime Minister`s data that in 2019  lowest mortality rate was recorded in Armenian army

ArmInfo. Armenian Minister of Defense David Tonoyan confirmed the data of the Prime Minister that in 2019 the lowest mortality rate was recorded in the army. Tonoyan  said this in an interview with reporters on January 14.

To the remark that many people refuted and questioned these figures,  the minister noted: "There is a certain problem with the counting  system, how it was counted in the past and how it is counted now. But  absolutely all cases were recorded." Regarding the fact that  interpersonal relations in the army lead to losses, David Tonoyan  said: "With the strengthening of discipline and the education of our  officers, we will achieve a better situation." It should be noted  that earlier the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia distributed a  message stating that in 2019, 20 servicemen of the Armenian Armed  Forces and the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh died during military  service, another 29 deaths were not related to service. The number of  dead military personnel compared with 2018 decreased by 22%.

In 2018, according to the data of the Prosecutor General's Office of  Armenia, 38 servicemen of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh died while  serving, another 25 deaths were not related to military service. From  January to June 2019, according to the supervisory authority, 11  soldiers were killed while serving, another 18 deaths were not  related to military service. "In 2019, 49 soldiers of the Armed  Horces of Armenia and the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh died,  while in 2018 the number of such deaths was 63. 

Thus, the number of deaths in 2019 compared to 2018 decreased by 22%,  and the number of deaths, related to military service, decreased by  47% [from 38 to 20]. Almost half - from seven to four - the number of  deaths as a result of violation of the ceasefire regime decreased.  The number of suicides brought by 36.4% decreased from 11 to 7, " -  on January 10 on, Advisor to the Prosecutor General of Armenia Gor  Abrahamyan reported on his Facebook page.

Based on these statistics, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote on  his Facebook page that the number of deaths in the Armenian Army over  the past year was the smallest in its history.

However, these statistics were denied today on January 14 at the  Vanadzor office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly. The latter noted that  the lowest mortality rate in the army was in 2013.