November 2, Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan received the relatives of Artak Nazaryan and Samvel Khachatryan.

The press service of the RA Ministry of Defense informed NEWS.am that Minister Ohanyan assured the soldiers’ relatives that the investigation into the soldiers’ death is under his personal control. All the measures are being taken to find out all the consequences and punish those guilty with all the rigors of the law.

Minister Ohanyan also received the relatives of Manvel Saribekyan, who was killed in Azerbaijani captivity. He expressed his deep condolences to them. The RA Minister of Defense also received 47 other citizens, parents of soldiers, relatives of freedom fighters, as well as retired officers, and discussed social and legal problems with them.

NEWS.am reminds readers that Artak Nazaryan was killed in one of the military units in Tavush, Armenia, under uncertain circumstances. The official version, a suicide, is dubious. Numerous marks of beatings were found on the body.

Samvel Khachatryan (born in 1992) was found hanged in the basement in his military unit on October 3. He had been brutally beaten up, strangled and then hanged so as it might look as suicide.