Fucked up dit.
Armen Arushanian, a disabled Karabakh veteran of a past war with Azerbaijan, still hoped to continue getting his monthly allowance in Armenia when he visited the office on Tuesday.
“They told me to forget about military pensions,” Arushanian told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Armenian opposition figures and other critics have condemned the government’s stance as immoral. They claim that Pashinian is washing his hands of the Karabakh refugees after controversially recognizing Azerbaijani sovereignty over Karabakh in May.
Pashinian has repeatedly assured the refugees that his government will help them settle down and find new livelihoods in Armenia.
The government sparked another controversy last week when it decided to grant them “temporary protection” formalizing their status of refugees. It thus made clear that it does not consider the Karabakh Armenians as citizens of Armenia despite the fact that virtually all of them hold Armenian passports. Government officials described their passports as mere “travel documents,” a claim disputed by some legal experts.
Ik heb Hem niet uit vrees voor de hel noch uit liefde voor het paradijs gediend, want dan zou ik als de slechte huurling zijn geweest; ik heb hem veeleer gediend in liefde tot Hem en in verlangen naar Hem.
-Rabia Al-Basri