Raffi Hovanisian: Serzh Sargsyan and Bako Sahakyan should resign for the sake of our Homeland
Heritage Party Leader Raffi Hovanissian has issued a statement condemning the Saturday incident on the Goris-Stepanakert highway near Berdzor in which members of the Founding Parliament, a successor of the Pre-Parliament pressure group, were attacked and beaten up by Karabakh police forces when trying to cross into the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to hold a political action there. “It is a shame for all of us on the threshold of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. We will achieve justice, but on condition that we start from ourselves,” Mr Hovanisyan said adding that despite his respect for Serzh Sargsyan and Bako Sahakyan, he believes that they should resign for the sake of Armenia, for the future of our Homeland and our soldiers. “And then, after complex changes, the entire nation will elect the first president of the united Armenia, ready to fully devote himself to serving out country and people,” he said. Police in Nagorno-Karabakh stopped on Saturday members of the Founding Parliament who were holding an automobile rally to Karabakh. Among the participants were also Jirayr Sefilian, a former commander of Shushi special battalion, and other veterans of the Karabakh war, who are said to have beaten up by the Karabakh police and young men wearing special police task force uniforms. The Founding Parliament says more than a dozen participants of the automobile rally were injured in the incident that happened on the Goris-Stepanakert highway near Berdzor. Journalist Anushavan Shahnazaryan was also hospitalized with injuries in Goris.
