Lala Aslikyan is an Armenian human rights activist. Since the late 1990s she has been very active in different civil society initiatives aimed at promotion and protection of civil and political rights, including but not limited to women rights, the rights of LGBT people, and the rights of the soldiers serving in the Armenian Army. In this interview with journalist and a younger activist Ruben Banuchyan, Lala tells about her involvement in different civic initiatives and movements in Armenia, and particularly about Civic Initiative “The Army in Reality”. She shares her views and believes on activism, political stance, values, etc.

Initiated in 2011 in response to human rights violations, high number of suicides and other non-combat fatalities in the Armenian Army, The Army in Reality is a group of activists who aim at promotion and protection of human rights in the Armenian armed forces and adequate detection and punishment of cases of human rights violations.