ArmInfo. As a result of the use of a special light-noise device by law enforcement officers in the village of Kirants, Tavush region of Armenia, 5 citizens were hospitalized - 4 women, 1 man and two police officers, the National Front reports.
It is noted that after examinations, all of them were discharged from the hospital. Video footage of the medical care provided was also distributed online. Meanwhile, the Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs hastened to assure that no special equipment was used during the clashes. However, it was confirmed that two law enforcement officers were hospitalized. The Ministry of Internal Affairs assured that the police suffered at the hands of demonstrators, who allegedly hit them with stones and sticks. However, video footage from the scene of the incident shows that there are no stones or sticks in the hands of citizens.
Citizens were injured as a result of clashes that occurred late in the evening of April 26. Residents of Kirants surrounded one of the cars trying to drive along the road, which they blocked in protest against the delimitation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, according to which 4 villages of Tavush should unilaterally go to Azerbaijan.
Tavush residents demanded that the people in the car get out. They believed that surveyors were in the car to carry out mapping work.
To open the road for the passage of a car without license plates, the special forces - "black berets" - began to use force against citizens, and a clash occurred between the citizens who blocked the road and the police.
Later it became known that Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, who is the main negotiator with the Azerbaijani side on demarcation issues, was in the car. Residents of Kirants village heard him talking on the phone with Nikol Pashinyan.
Government media hastened to refute this information, assuring that specialists from Armenian government departments went to the village of Kirants in order to study and inventory the problems of the residents of this locality and adjacent territories.
As Armenpress was told in the office of RA Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, the information disseminated in the media that Mher Grigoryan was also in the car with specialists does not correspond to reality.
Residents of the border villages of Tavush have been holding protests on the Armenia-Georgia interstate road on the Kiran-Voskepar section since April 19. They oppose the border delimitation option agreed upon by Yerevan and Baku, as a result of which strategic heights will pass to Azerbaijan and Armenian villages will be completely or partially surrounded. Residents of Tavush have been spending the seventh night on the blocked Voskepar-Kirants road.
On April 19, the commissions for demarcation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to begin demarcation of the border from the Tavush region. According to them, the description of these sections of the border line will be drawn up taking into account the clarification of the coordinates that will be obtained as a result of geodetic measurements on site. All this will be documented in the appropriate protocol description, which must be agreed upon and signed between the parties before May 15 of this year.