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The attack on the Founding Parliament movement’s members in Berdzor (Lachin) by the NKR administration was either a direct order from or approved by Baghramyan 26 (RA President’s Office), basically a state crime, said the latter movement’s coordinator, veteran Jirayr Sefilyan today during a press conference about the attack registered on the NKR border.
He explained that the NKR authorities and media had begun working against the Founding Parliament since December of 2014, when they had made a statement about possibly having a car rally to Karabakh. “In the beginning of December their controlled scribblers (journalists) began damaging the movement and us personally, on the village level. Then they tried using the connections between us and forced us to suspend the rally,” said Sefilyan.
The movement’s coordinator stressed that the NKR police chief Kamo Sahakyan personally asked him to give up the idea of the rally. Not receiving the desired response, the police chief said that he had spoken to NKR President Bako Sahakyan, and the latter had promised that the Founding Parliament would have their awareness campaign live streamed on TV, instead of the rally. However, the movement’s members were skeptical about the promise, Sefilyan left to Karabakh with his friends anyways.
“It’s natural that Bako Sahakyan lied, he said that he hadn’t promised anything. On that day, they admitted that they had dreamed for a year of entering the Eurasian Economic Union. Of course, it pains us to hear such an idea from a man who controls Artsakh’s frontline, which thousands of dedicated men have spilled blood for. After all this, some low ranking official chinovnik comes and says something like that,” noted Sefilyan.
The latter stated that “we are going to go to Artsakh again,” because no one can force their will on others. Sefilyan recalled that thousands of Armenians and diasporan Armenians went to Artsakh to defend it and called them to come to Yerevan on April 24 and participate in the Founding Parliament’s fight, which calls for removal of the ruling authorities. He refused to answer as to exactly what measures would be used to reach their goal before April 24, he only stressed that their activities would not disturb Genocide commemorations.