Urban guerilla

28/01/2007

This is the story of a marired couple,. She’s native Armenian. He’s foreigner, but with Armenian roots still (what the hell would he be doing here otherwise :) )

Anyway, these two people are outstanding, cultivated, smart, easygoing, welcoming, in brief everything you could expect in this Caucasian world.

Moreover than being a really good friend, he’s a workmate, so he’s more than able to understand my situation, and the other way round.

But back to our staff. I’m not here to blog about our friendship. But maybe yes indeed.


Yerevan, new playground for mafia???/Thomas Seropian/Mai 2006/www.followtheway.info

This morning 7h, he calls me. I won’t come to work today. Sh’es been shot.

Me : a little floating moment. I’m thinking : they’re not the gangsta style to be into troubles. I guess not in fact.

Me: “Wait a second, sh’es been shot? With real live bullets? What’s the fuck happening to you?”

Him : “Apparently a lost bullet that went through our apartment window. During our sleep. She’s been screaming to death. We’re going to ER.

Afterwards I got some fresh news. She lost a few teeth. But her head is heavy so she will get out easily after a week in hospital.

He’s been heavlily shocked and I can understand it.

Is Yerevan turning into an unsafe land a-la Lagos, Nigeria where lost bullets are a matter of fact.

This post has only value for (and even we’ve been used to it seems) giving report that Yerevan is not this paradise city that diaspora is willing to dream of.

And this stupid war is pretty much useless.

And moreover, it’s in order to support my 2 dearest friends here in Armenia (and maybe elsewhere who knows).

Fuck fuck fuck wou’re going to get this trouble out, and if you’re reading me (and I know you will one day), know that you have my full dedicated support for this troubles.

Cheers.

There are 6 comments in this article:

  1. 2007-01-28Oneworld Multimedia say:

    Notes from the Armenian Blogosphere…

    Met up with Thomas from Follow The Way last night and over one or two vodkas he told me the story of two of his friends. Now I see that he’s posted it, and what a story. It sounds unbelievable at first, but as I’ve always considered myself…

  2. 2007-01-28Zarchka say:

    This is terrible, unbelievable indeed. Kind of reminded me of the case when in 1990 if I’m not mistaken, some shootings started at Erebuni Masiv for blocking the Russian Army’s entrance to Yerevan. I was a kid then and was ordered to lie on the floor and not to raise my head. A 19 year old girl, who was breast-feeding her new born child in her apartment on the 5th floor, was shot by a bullet coming from nowhere. People were scared to death then.

    I thought those times passed, ,,yes,,,giving way to mafia? And sorting out problems only by killing each other and peaceful citizens.

    Thanks God the girl survived, really unbelievable.

  3. 2007-01-28Observer say:

    God save us from ourselves… I sometimes think we - Armenians do not deserve independence! We simply can’t rule ouseves!

    Anyway - I wish health and wellbeing to your friends…

  4. 2007-01-30Thomas say:

    Thank god both of them are ok. She’s recovering much more better than excpected.

    And what’s the most shocking is more than you can die from a bullet in your head, but you can die by bleeding out waiting for the ambulance for 30 (yes, thirty) minutes to come, without a stretcher.

    So imagine how it is easy to carry someone down in the freezing winter night from 9th floor without an elevator :)

    And then get to a hospital, and after 15 minutes in the ER, “sorry you should go to another one, we won’t able to take you in charge before 20 minutes”.

    Thanks God again everyone is OK.

    Welcome to the real armenian world ;)

  5. 2007-02-01will say:

    Just a small, precision:
    The doctors didn’t say you have to wait 20 min before getting operated but 6 hours….and thing before being operated …she had to be interrogated by the police for another hour and half….so operation started 3.5 hours after the shoot…thanks Yerevan services!!!
    And yes she’s alive but will have to have a rehabilitation post treatment for the moment the left size of her face is paralysed…and we do not know if it is permanent.
    Well anyway thanks Thoomis for your support

  6. 2007-10-16f o l l o w t h e w a y » Blog Archive » Le fil du rasoir, suite say:

    [...] Et puis je n’ai pas envie de rester ici dans des conditions précaires. L’hiver n’est pas des plus drôle. Le système médical non plus. [...]

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