Raffi Doudaklian
BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN
I am trying to wrap my head around news that my colleague, Raffi Doudaklian, with whom I have worked side-by-side at Asbarez for years during the heyday of the Artsakh war, the early days of our independent republic and whose column we published in our newspaper, was brutally beaten by unknown assailants in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon earlier this week.
Doudaklian is now executive director of the Tufenkian Foundation, which focuses on humanitarian efforts in Artsakh, border villages and of late providing housing for wounded soldiers. He was visiting Lebanon last week weekend, accompanied by the Artsakh director of Tufenkian on foundation business.
“After we finished our work, on Monday evening, we went to get the car parked in Bourj Hammoud. That’s when two guys attacked me; one from behind, one from the front. They hit my head and face,â€
