No “death certificate” to this day
Twenty-two years ago this day Soviet forces were dislocated from Afghanistan.
To mark this historical day, participants of the Afghan war gathered at Victory Park to pay tribute to their friends in front of the monument opened two years ago.
Valena Georginyan was also at Victory Park with nearly 100 veterans. Her only son Armen Georginyan participated in the war for only 17 days and died at the age of 18.
Mrs. Georginyan has not received her son's death certificate to this day.
The participants of the war say the government is doing as much as it can for them.
"There are countries that allocate large amounts of pensions and our government gives as much as it can," says MP, president of the Union of Afghan Veterans of Armenia Armen Mkhitaryan, who has served in Afghanistan for 21 months.
The MP mentioned that a draft law on the participants of the patriotic, Afghan and Karabakh wars has been put into circulation for the past 8 months.
3,700 soldiers and 400 officers from Armenia participated in the Afghan war, out of which 86 died and 300 soldiers became disabled.
The Afghan veterans used to receive privileges such as free transportation and low communal expenses. Now, they only receive a 4,500-dram compensation and the Union of Afghan War Veterans of Armenia helps them and their families out from time to time.
