85-90 percent of suicide cases in the army are related to 3 situations. Pashinyan
30-07-2026 14:29 Armenia Politics
shantnews.am Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan presented the 3 reasons for suicides in the army during a press briefing after the Government meeting:
According to the Prime Minister, one of the reasons is making bets, falling into debt, and being unable to pay off the debt. Measures have been taken in this regard to prohibit those in service from making bets, but the system, according to Pashinyan, is still in the implementation phase:
«I have known about this since the time I was in the Kosh colony. It is not necessary to make bets with your phone; there are shadow dealers who make bets over the phone. This means that even if there is no phone, if you have won, you give your winnings, but if you have lost, I’m so sorry, they take it by all possible means. This is one of the reasons for suicide,» he said:
The second reason, according to Pashinyan, is family and personal problems that they have in civilian life:
The third reason is related to sleeping during guard duty in combat positions:
«There is a sentence like this in a song by an Armenian rapper. It talks about himself, saying, ‘I have never slept in the position.’ The listener from the side might say, ‘What kind of sentence is this, ‘I have never slept in the position’… He says, ‘You hold the position, the others rest, sleep, if the guard has slept, it means he has put the lives of others at risk, and whoever records that he has slept during guard duty, the soldiers (is this a criminal subculture or a security pressure?) subject him to contempt and isolation, and after leaving the position, there is a certain isolation, seclusion, psychological pressure, etc.,» he said, noting that 85-90 percent of the cases of suicide in the army are related to these 3 situations:
In response to a journalist's observation that does the military leadership not bear some blame in this matter, Pashinyan replied, «I bear that blame; it should not be placed on the military leadership. I bear that blame for not having found a solution to the problem until now, and this is the reason why our program talks about the criminal subculture, the need for physical-psychological preparation of students, and the expansion of worldview.»
* This text was automatically translated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
