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"ARTSAKH IS AN INDEPENDENT STATE": NKR POLICE BEAT UP CAR RALLY PARTICIPANTS (VIDEO)
02.02.2015 12:42 epress.am
Video footage was released of the car rally by the Founding Parliament
(Pre-Parliament) Movement on Saturday, where the 100 Years Without
This Regime rally participants were beaten and their cars smashed by
police of the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and people
wearing civilian clothes.
In the beginning of the video a police officer approaches a
rally participant, askes for his documents and states it was "raid
inspection." Afterwards, the police and civilian clothed people began
smashing the participants' cars with batons.
Press Spokesperson of the presidnet of Nagorno Karabakh Davit Babayan
stated in an interview with Azatutyun that nearly 100 citizens, upset
about the Founding Parliament car rally, gathered near the border to
"not let the convoy enter Artsakh," while the police created a barrier
between them and the rally participants. According to Babayan, they
requested the participants to go back, but they did not accept the
request and "took steps which led to what happened."
Babayan assumed that the Founding Parliament members "made provocations
by cursing."
"Pre-Parliament (the Founding Parliament's previous name)
organization's protest found a negative reaction throughout all of
Artsakh. The organizers were earlier informed about this on the highest
level. They were told to refrain from such politics, such initiatives;
they did not respond in any way to this.
Artsakh has nothing to do with inner political developments, regime
change in the Republic of Armenia. Artsakh is an independent state,
it doesn't vote a for the President (in Armenia), not the Parliament,
and not for the formation of any other institutions. And finally,
slogans such as Artsakh is a province of Armenia etc, receive negative
reactions in Artsakh, because we feel the enemy's, Azerbaijan's,
influence every second," said Babayan.
http://www.epress.am/en/2015/02/02/%E2%80%9Cartsakh-is-an-independent-state%E2%80%9D-nkr-police-beat-up-car-rally-participants-video.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbF33yx8jpo
From: A. Papazian
02.02.2015 12:42 epress.am
Video footage was released of the car rally by the Founding Parliament
(Pre-Parliament) Movement on Saturday, where the 100 Years Without
This Regime rally participants were beaten and their cars smashed by
police of the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and people
wearing civilian clothes.
In the beginning of the video a police officer approaches a
rally participant, askes for his documents and states it was "raid
inspection." Afterwards, the police and civilian clothed people began
smashing the participants' cars with batons.
Press Spokesperson of the presidnet of Nagorno Karabakh Davit Babayan
stated in an interview with Azatutyun that nearly 100 citizens, upset
about the Founding Parliament car rally, gathered near the border to
"not let the convoy enter Artsakh," while the police created a barrier
between them and the rally participants. According to Babayan, they
requested the participants to go back, but they did not accept the
request and "took steps which led to what happened."
Babayan assumed that the Founding Parliament members "made provocations
by cursing."
"Pre-Parliament (the Founding Parliament's previous name)
organization's protest found a negative reaction throughout all of
Artsakh. The organizers were earlier informed about this on the highest
level. They were told to refrain from such politics, such initiatives;
they did not respond in any way to this.
Artsakh has nothing to do with inner political developments, regime
change in the Republic of Armenia. Artsakh is an independent state,
it doesn't vote a for the President (in Armenia), not the Parliament,
and not for the formation of any other institutions. And finally,
slogans such as Artsakh is a province of Armenia etc, receive negative
reactions in Artsakh, because we feel the enemy's, Azerbaijan's,
influence every second," said Babayan.
http://www.epress.am/en/2015/02/02/%E2%80%9Cartsakh-is-an-independent-state%E2%80%9D-nkr-police-beat-up-car-rally-participants-video.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbF33yx8jpo
From: A. Papazian