Over a period of six years, from 2010 to 2015 the RA and NK armed forces suffered a total of 206 fatal casualties, of which 48 were results of suicides and 43 results of murders. That number does not include the fatalities that were the result of ceasefire regime violations on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the line of contact. In percentage this numbers are equivalent to 23% and 21% of total non-combat casualties during the last 6 years.

The results of the observations carried out by Peace Dialogue NGO regarding the fatalities in the Armenian and NK Armed […]

The results of the observations carried out by Peace Dialogue NGO regarding the fatalities in the Armenian and NK Armed […]

The website and database www.safesoldiers.am has been updated with information provided to Peace Dialogue NGO by private individuals, NGOs along with information from public media. With this update, the website database now lists a total of 810 fatalities recorded in the Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces since 1994 (currently the complete database is available at the Armenian version of the website).

In a democracy, soldiers are citizens. It is that simple: They deserve to be treated as citizens, and they should not tolerate being treated otherwise, even if the military service, in training and operations, includes hardships and deprivations. An army that structurally violates the rights of its citizen-soldiers will lose legitimacy, and, in the long term, it will lose military efficacy as well.