Law-enforcers use special means in Kirants: five hospitalized
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.