ArmInfo. "What decision served as a basis for putting up a tent of the Armenian armed forces on a site vulnerable to the enemy fire?" asks Tigran Abrahamyan of the opposition parliamentary faction With Honor.
Azerbaijani mass media have posted pictures allegedly showing the site where Armenian soldier David Vardanyan was mortally wounded.
"The pictures show a tent where our servicemen allegedly live. When I was told that our serviceman was inside when he was shot - and our servicemen spend the nights in tends in that section - I recalled the authorities' assurances that the last section was provided with all necessary living facilities.
"Even if the tent had been put up, what decisions were the basis for putting it up on a site vulnerable to the enemy fire?" Mr Abrahamyan wrote in a Facebook post. "Just recall the incentive payments to police and violence used against citizens and tents and vulnerable sites on the border. The law-enforcement system is for them an instrument and the defense of borders has been left at Azerbaijan's whim," the MP wrote.
According to the official report by the RA Ministry of Defense, on May 28, at around 10:40 am, units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces opened fire from various caliber firearms, including sniper rifles, at Armenian positions in the southeastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, as a result of which conscript, Private David Vahan Vardanyan received a gunshot wound. He was hospitalized but died later.
In its turn, the Azerbaijani defense office is giving assurances that the Azerbaijani side has nothing to do with the Armenian soldier's death. His death was the result of personal conflict. Armenia's defense office did not respond to the Azerbaijani side's claims or to Armenian mass media inquiries.