While always disappointing to see censorship and measures taken against an author and/or a book, it's somehow still heartening that a book with a print run of only 300 (of which only 120 have sold) can still cause such a fuss: as Gayane Mkrychyan reports in ArmeniaNow, Fiction ?: Army pursues author as Armenia celebrates its status as "World Book Capital", as:
The author of a book that is said to defame the Armenian Army has been charged with dissemination of pornographic material and his book, Demob Day, has been removed from some bookstore shelves following pressure from the Military Police.Yeah, they're apparently none too pleased about it:
Nonetheless Military Police attorney Anahit Yesayan says Ishkhanyan's work of fiction distorts truth, defames the military, is offensive to religion and Armenian mothers.I do admire them for resorting to the 'offensive-to-moms' defense, but I'm afraid this guy lost the entire argument when he complained about this work of fiction distorting truth .... ('Cause, you know, fiction never distorts truth, and no one ever expects it to.)