Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan has shared a photo of villager Gevorg Avagyan’s house, showing an Azerbaijani post on the mountain close to it.
“The house in the picture below belongs to the family of Gevorg Avagyan, a resident of Chakaten village; the watchtower of Azerbaijani servicemen is located directly above it, on the mountain. He has been deprived of his family income and continues to suffer great losses due to Azerbaijani criminal acts,” he wrote on Facebook on Monday.
During their visit to Chakaten village of Syunik Province on Monday, the ombudsman’s staff discovered that 5 to 6 years ago, 3 families built a 2 km long pipeline from a water source near the village with great difficulty, spending more than 2 million drams in the process. However, the Azerbaijani servicemen cut off the water supply for these families after their deployment in the areas without any legal ground. Currently the families have to use a different water source in the village, which is a significant issue, since the water sources are scarce and not enough to satisfy the needs of the residents.
Moreover, Gevorg Avagyan works as a taxi driver in Kapan, which is the source of income of his family. As a result of the blatantly...
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