Petros Makeyan: Authorities took revenge on Zhirayr Sefilyan (video)
Lernik Alexanyan, a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), cannot understand the logic of last week’s automobile march launched by the Founding Parliament, a successor of the Pre-Parliament pressure group. He believes that the police in Karabakh did not exercise violence against the participants of the automobile march ‘with special aim.’ “You can always blame the authorities. I am against violence, but we should not draw conclusions until we know the details. I also cannot understand the Founding Parliament’s intention to go to Artsakh with that slogan - “100th Anniversary Without this Regime” he said. The weekend events near Berdzor, did not surprise the chairman of the Democratic Fatherland Party, Petros Makeyan. It is already a year hazardous processes have been occurring in Armenia, he says. “The authorities took revenge on Zhirayr Sefilyan for the motto he chose and drove another wedge into the relations between Armenia and Karabakh. We are witnessing the continuation of separatist politics which began during the years of Robert Kocharyan’s presidency,” he said. On January 31, members of the Founding Parliament, a radical opposition initiative seeking a regime change in Armenia, tried to enter Karabakh in order to carry out a protest demonstration there. Near Berdzor, they were stopped by local police who forcefully blocked access to the territory of Karabakh. Some of the participants, including Zhirayr Sefilyan, a former commander of the Shushi special detachment, political analyst Igor Muradyan and other freedom fighters were beaten.
