Saturday, April 27 2024 14:56

ArmInfo.  As a result of the use of a special light-noise device by law enforcement officers in  the village of Kirants, Tavush region of Armenia, 5 citizens were hospitalized - 4 women, 1 man and two police officers, the National Front reports. 

It is noted that after examinations, all of them were discharged from  the hospital. Video footage of the medical care provided was also  distributed online. Meanwhile, the Armenian Ministry of Internal  Affairs hastened to assure that no special equipment was used during  the clashes. However, it was confirmed that two law enforcement  officers were hospitalized. The Ministry of Internal Affairs assured  that the police suffered at the hands of demonstrators, who allegedly  hit them with stones and sticks. However, video footage from the  scene of the incident shows that there are no stones or sticks in the  hands of citizens.

Citizens were injured as a result of clashes that occurred late in  the evening of April 26. Residents of Kirants surrounded one of the  cars trying to drive along the road, which they blocked in protest  against the delimitation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border,  according to which 4 villages of Tavush should unilaterally go to  Azerbaijan.

Tavush residents demanded that the people in the car get out. They  believed that surveyors were in the car to carry out mapping work.

To open the road for the passage of a car without license plates, the  special forces - "black berets" - began to use force against  citizens, and a clash occurred between the citizens who blocked the  road and the police.

Later it became known that Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, who  is the main negotiator with the Azerbaijani side on demarcation  issues, was in the car. Residents of Kirants village heard him  talking on the phone with Nikol Pashinyan.

Government media hastened to refute this information, assuring that  specialists from Armenian government departments went to the village  of Kirants in order to study and inventory the problems of the  residents of this locality and adjacent territories.

As Armenpress was told in the office of RA Deputy Prime Minister Mher  Grigoryan, the information disseminated in the media that Mher  Grigoryan was also in the car with specialists does not correspond to  reality.

Residents of the border villages of Tavush have been holding protests  on the Armenia-Georgia interstate road on the Kiran-Voskepar section  since April 19. They oppose the border delimitation option agreed  upon by Yerevan and Baku, as a result of which strategic heights will  pass to Azerbaijan and Armenian villages will be completely or  partially surrounded. Residents of Tavush have been spending the  seventh night on the blocked Voskepar-Kirants road.

On April 19, the commissions for demarcation of the border between  Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to begin demarcation of the border from  the Tavush region. According to them, the description of these  sections of the border line will be drawn up taking into account the  clarification of the coordinates that will be obtained as a result of  geodetic measurements on site. All this will be documented in the  appropriate protocol description, which must be agreed upon and  signed between the parties before May 15 of this year.