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    Berdzor Incident: Karabakh police stop "hardliners" from Armenia

    News | 01.02.15 | 12:25
    Photo: www.preparliament.com


    Police in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Saturday they had stopped a group
    of opposition hardliners from Armenia from entering the territory of
    their republic "in order to prevent mass disturbances."

    Some four dozen vehicles of members of the Founding Parliament, a
    radical opposition group seeking a regime change in Armenia, intended
    to cross into the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) on January 31 to
    hold a political action there. The hardliners, among whom were also
    Jirayr Sefilian and other veterans of the Karabakh war, claimed to
    have been beaten up by Karabakh police and young men wearing special
    police task force uniforms on the Goris-Stepanakert highway near
    Berdzor and prevented from entering the republic.

    The Founding Parliament, a successor of the Pre-Parliament pressure
    group, said more than a dozen participants of the automobile march
    were injured in what it described as an unprovoked attack by the
    Police.

    It said the Police damaged many vehicles and also confiscated
    video-recording devices. At least one person, a journalist, was
    reportedly hospitalized with injuries in Goris.

    The NKR Police, meanwhile, issued a statement, saying that the
    Founding Parliament's automobile march had elicited a "negative
    reaction among wide circles of the Karabakh public" and "a large part
    of the population decided to prevent the march participants' entry
    into Karabakh."

    "Considering the aforementioned circumstance and possible violations
    of public order, the Police set up patrols at some sections of the
    Goris-Stepanakert highway. Meeting the march participants, police
    workers conducted explanatory work, urging them to give up their
    initiative, as it has caused public tensions in Artsakh.

    Nevertheless, a group of participants of the automobile march, despite
    police calls, resorted to illegal actions and continued provocations
    even after police warnings," the NKR Police said.

    "For the purpose of preventing mass disturbances, under the
    circumstances the Police of Nagorno-Karabakh had to resort to
    corresponding actions within the framework of the powers reserved to
    them by law.

    Unfortunately, there are people who got injured, but their lives are
    out of danger," the Police report concluded.


    http://armenianow.com/news/60237/armenia_founding_parliament_police_karabakh_motor_ march



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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