Amnesty Int’l Reports Violence Against Women in Armenia
An 8-page report by Amnesty International documents widespread domestic violence and sexual abuse of women in Armenia. According to the findings, while one in four Armenian women are physically violated by family members, many more are psychologically abused.
Worst of all, violence against women is a taboo in Armenia, with all-male government agencies reluctant to investigate “private matters” and women afraid to report abuse in the first place. Moreover, the report says that many women in Armenia help perpetuate the widespread abuse by treating violence as normal. Amnesty quotes an infamous Armenian saying that translates, “A woman is like wool; the more you beat her, the softer she’ll be.”
The government of Armenia in essence denies that domestic abuse is an issue in the Republic, although there has been some talk by officials about change. There are still no laws that deal with the issue.
This conventional violence in Armenia, as the report carefully suggests, has translated into people not carrying about human trafficking.
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Hayaser on 13 Nov 2008 at 10:50 pm #
“A woman is like wool; the more you beat her, the softer she’ll be”……yah? ara come beat me and i’ll show you who the wool is afterwards
this is 1 of thee most disturbing things in Hayastan
any stanci who beats his wives, sisters, and even mothers….ara i swear i will love to beat you down. let a stanci beat his wife-sister or any of our Hay females in front of me, see if i wont draw my firearm on them and make them lick the dog shit off of my heel. our women are our JEWELS, you know that means?….araaaa mer ZMRUXTNERN en, they are the backbone of our HAYRENIK and these sorry ass losers who think its cool to be rabiz beat their wives and sisters as if …”ara norman ban e”….normal ban e hah? ok, let me beat your mother to the groud and then piss on her, its ok…ara normal ban e…
these stupid dip shit losers who beat our females, araaaaaa vaaaaay if i ever catch them doing it here or there, i will not hesistate to do something about it. i have yet to catch these guys beating down our females, its not coincidence that there is no witnesses. futhermore, our females are stupid to NOT stand up to these anasuner who beat them down. the moment these females of ours stand up and fight back, you’ll see a HUGE change on how these guys treat our women
and then some of our guys have such big balls to ask….why do our women not want us? why they marry otars?…the epitomy of ignorance and stupidity lys within our guys, especially rabiz motherfuckers
love and respect our women as if they are the queen of the world, especially our HAYOC ASHXARH. love them like there is no tomorrow. our iskakan HAY females are very special and they must be protected at all costs, the ones who are traitors….well our guys should beat down them, not our iskakan Hay axchikner
Lilit on 29 Apr 2009 at 12:04 am #
Hayaser, although your comment was a bit angry, and I understand your reasons for that, but I agree with you 100%, especially
“and then some of our guys have such big balls to ask….why do our women not want us? why they marry otars?…the epitomy of ignorance and stupidity lys within our guys, especially rabiz”
So true…