What Movsesyan and other potential repatriates face is the issue of military service and a new law requiring those who haven’t served in the military to pay upwards of AMD 15 million (US$40,000) to get service exemptions.
Ten minutes before our telephone conversation on March 31 with Hagop Pakradouni, a member of the Lebanese parliament and head of the ARF Bureau for Middle East Affairs, Israel struck the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut.