Haykandukht Karapetyan, the mother of the family, states that, “After the earthquake we were 399th on the list of those ‘in need of an apartment”. As a family with three young children receiving assistance, we should have benefited from this situation but our number never came up. The “Apartment Purchasing Certificate” given by the government is valued at $16,000 which in Gyumri isn’t even enough to buy a one room apartment. In 2004 my husband and our 16 year-old son went to Tatarastan to find work and make some money to add to the Certificate and thus buy something suitable. They left and we curse the day they went.”In Tatarastan, Voskehask village resident Ararat Muradyan took the passports of Robert Karapetyan and his son, on the pretext of getting them temporarily registered. Muradyan proceeded to enslave the two through a series of beatings and threats. For more than one year the father and son were forced to work as construction laborers and survived on nothing more than hard bread and macaroni. Afterwards Muradyan was criminally convicted and is now in jail. Given that Muradyan has no assets to his name the Karapetyans have not been able to receive any monetary compensation for the economic deprivations they suffered.из новостей на етом же сайте
