At the age of 14 the girl was raped by her cousin, but instead of getting support by her relatives she was moved to a mental clinic a year later. “My mother told me to keep silent; others did not believe my words”.
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“In our family, they attach great importance to women’s education. My grandmother is a well-known poet and my mother is an avid reader. I do believe that future belongs to nations where mothers are readers,” says Zuzan.
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Վերջին 10 տարիներին ընտանեկան բռնության հետևանքով մահացել է ավելի քան 100 կին։ Նրանցից շատերը կփրկվեին, եթե շրջապատը չլիներ անտարբեր։ Մի՛ եղիր անտարբեր: Մի՛ լռիր:
More than a 100 women have been killed in domestic violence over the last 10 years in Armenia. Most of them would have survived if people around them did not remain silent. Indifference kills.
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“I was only seven years old, when my sister and I were placed in a children’s home in Vanadzor. My grandmother took us there, as she had promised my mother not to give us to any relative after her death,” she recalls.
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“I’ve always felt like an orphan, a parentless child, and I had to stand up for myself, shape myself up, so that whenever I failed I would know it was my fault,” says Varda Avetisyan, a restaurateur and founder of Kchuch, Losh and Tava restaurants of authentic Armenian cuisine in Dilijan.
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“Daily beatings and violence had become a part of our married life. He would beat me at the slightest pretext or for nothing at all. He beat me out from jealousy, whenever he was frustrated, or whenever he felt like doing it. When he beat me in front our daughter, it was the last straw for me. I just moved to my parents’ house together with my child,” says Mariam Melikyan.
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“The moment I learnt the truth, I just lost any interest in life. I wished I hadn’t known anything at all,” says Nana Manucharyan, who was only 21 when she discovered the ugly, devastating reality of her marriage: her husband was a child abuser.
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