Karabakh war participant starts hunger strike outside French Embassy
A participant of the Karabakh war, Samvel Mikaelyan, has started a termless hunger strike outside the French Embassy in Yerevan, requesting a meeting with the French ambassador.
Mikaelyan says the choice of the site is not accidental, for the French government has always kept its citizens in the spotlight. The freedom fighter is still homeless though he has applied to all relevant bodies, including Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.
"Minister Ohanian wrote brief instructions and assigned his inferiors to tackle the issue. But I have received no definite answer to this day. I am continually told to wait for my turn," says the desperate freedom fighter, adding that the Defense Minister signed the document as "top priority."
Samvel Mikaelyan is presently living in Huysi Avan" ("District of Hope"), in the home of an acquaintance. His children live in Russia. The Karabakh war participant says he cannot even afford medicine with his 65 000-dram pension.
The 54-year-old freedom fighter is going to ask the French Ambassador to avail him an opportunity to settle in France.
