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Truth and Consequences?: Alleged rape victim now says he was beaten for his accusations
By Zhanna Alexanyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
A soldier who went public last week with allegations that he has been raped while on duty in Karabakh, now says that was beaten, a day after his charges were reported by ArmeniaNow. (See “Violence in the Ranks”)
A reporter visiting Narek Karapteyan (his name has been changed due to the nature of the charges) on Thursday found the 18-year old with a swollen face and bruises under his eye in the Yerevan hospital where he has been transferred for treatment.
Karapetyan’s mother says she saw her son in that condition on a regular visit earlier this week, and that the boy at first said he had fallen out of bed, but later said he’d been beaten by servicemen. His mother also said her son asked her to tell investigators about the beating, for fear that he’d receive more punishment.
Attending officers at the hospital say the soldier is lying, and they became indignant and verbally abusive when ArmeniaNow’s reporter inquired about the latest charges.
In the presence of overseeing officers and authorities, Karapetyan said everything in the hospital was okay and that, while he was beaten, he had provoked the fight. It is not, however, what Karapetyan’s attorney, Zaruhi Postanjyan, says he has told her.
“He hasn’t told the investigator the things that he has told me,” Postanjyan says. “The feeling of fear is always there with him.”
Karapetyan is being treated in the psychiatric department of the hospital where, says the head of the hospital, lieutenant-colonel Gagik Mktrchyan also “children with sexual deviations” are sent. (Postanjyan says her client was forced to sign a document, saying that he’d had consensual sex with the soldiers – including an officer – he is now charging with rape. ArmeniaNow has learned the name of the officer, but withholds identifying him unless formal charges are brought.)
During ArmeniaNow’s visit, Mkrtchyan brought several military doctors into his office who, in loud voices as if by rehearsal, said there were no grounds to Karapetyan’s claims. The lieutenant-colonel says he does not understand why the mother is making public charges that others keep silent about, nor does he understand why an attorney or a journalist should be raising such questions.
Neither.
It's more of a show of my dominance...both intellectually and physically.
Puny Anglo.
Truth and Consequences?: Alleged rape victim now says he was beaten for his accusations
By Zhanna Alexanyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
A soldier who went public last week with allegations that he has been raped while on duty in Karabakh, now says that was beaten, a day after his charges were reported by ArmeniaNow. (See “Violence in the Ranks”)
A reporter visiting Narek Karapteyan (his name has been changed due to the nature of the charges) on Thursday found the 18-year old with a swollen face and bruises under his eye in the Yerevan hospital where he has been transferred for treatment.
Karapetyan’s mother says she saw her son in that condition on a regular visit earlier this week, and that the boy at first said he had fallen out of bed, but later said he’d been beaten by servicemen. His mother also said her son asked her to tell investigators about the beating, for fear that he’d receive more punishment.
Attending officers at the hospital say the soldier is lying, and they became indignant and verbally abusive when ArmeniaNow’s reporter inquired about the latest charges.
In the presence of overseeing officers and authorities, Karapetyan said everything in the hospital was okay and that, while he was beaten, he had provoked the fight. It is not, however, what Karapetyan’s attorney, Zaruhi Postanjyan, says he has told her.
“He hasn’t told the investigator the things that he has told me,” Postanjyan says. “The feeling of fear is always there with him.”
Karapetyan is being treated in the psychiatric department of the hospital where, says the head of the hospital, lieutenant-colonel Gagik Mktrchyan also “children with sexual deviations” are sent. (Postanjyan says her client was forced to sign a document, saying that he’d had consensual sex with the soldiers – including an officer – he is now charging with rape. ArmeniaNow has learned the name of the officer, but withholds identifying him unless formal charges are brought.)
During ArmeniaNow’s visit, Mkrtchyan brought several military doctors into his office who, in loud voices as if by rehearsal, said there were no grounds to Karapetyan’s claims. The lieutenant-colonel says he does not understand why the mother is making public charges that others keep silent about, nor does he understand why an attorney or a journalist should be raising such questions.
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