YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the data of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, 153 cases of death, mainly murders or suicides, were registered in the Armenian army in 2005. According to the same source, in 1994-1997, about 800 cases of servicemen's death were registered in the Armenian army. In 1999-2002 the number of death cases in the army started to decrease: according to the data of state proper bodies, in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 the number of death cases made 151, 86, 72 and 42, respectively. The data of RA Defence Ministry and Military Prosecutor's Office in their turn are contradictory. According to the Defence Ministry, 40 cases of death were registered in the army in 2003, according to the Military Prosecutor's Office, 48 and according to the data of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, 61 cases. According to the data of state structures, 38 cases of death were registered in RA Armed Forces subdivisions in 2004: no unofficial data were collected for that year. According to the answer given by RA Foreign Ministry to the Human Rights Watch organization's report, 14 cases of death were registered in the Armenian army in 2005 and according to the data sent to the Helsinki Committee by the Military Prosecutor's Office, 28, according to RA Defence Ministry, 89 cases of death and according to the data collected by the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, 153 cases of death. By the way, according to the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, servicemen who died from being wounded or getting corporal injuries were not included in the state structures' statistics on cases of death in the army.

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