Samvel Farmanyan: Automobile rally organized by Founding Parliament was immoral

Republican Party lawmaker Samvel Farmanyan today spoke in parliament about the Berdzor incident, calling the automobile rally organized by the Founding Parliament movement an ‘immoral action.’ To turn April 24, which is of great importance for our nation, into a subject of speculation is an immoral act. They were to fight against the regime on the territory of the Republic of Armenia and not in Karabakh. It is immoral; you cannot go to Karabakh to teach patriotism. This is unacceptable. It means you do not acknowledge anything as sacred,” he said. Police in Nagorno-Karabakh stopped on Saturday members of the Founding Parliament, a successor of the Pre-Parliament pressure group, 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.