Artsakh TV on Berdzor incident (video)
On January 31, members of the Founding Parliament had planned to hold an automobile rally to Artsakh where they were going to stage a political action. On the way, the group was stopped by the Artsakh police forces, who banned their entry to the country. In a statement issued later on Saturday, the Artsakh police said they were actually responding to people’s concerns that the entry of the group into Nagorno-Karabakh could lead to mass disturbances. Veterans of the Artsakh Liberation war also issued a statement saying the automobile rally was unacceptable and intolerable for them and they would not allow the group to enter Artsakh since they considered the behaviour of a group of people, who are speaking on behalf of the entire nation but are, in fact, unaware of their real concerns and desires, to be a real threat to the national unity and security. The video is provided by Artsakh TV 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.
