Village headman cursed: residents of Garni again closed the road
The residents of Garni village today closed Yerevan-Garni road for an hour. They got angry that Aram Harutyunyan, Chairman of the State Committee of Water Economy of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia, Kotayq Governor Karapet Guloyan and other employees left them beside the culture house of the village and entered the building.
“Then they asked to enter and discuss the issue, but the people answered that they had nothing to discuss. They didn’t leave, they remained inside. Then the village headman urged the villagers to enter, but the residents didn’t succumb and there was conflict situation. The village headman started cursing and entered into conflict with residents,” village resident Sara Petrosyan told “A1+”.
“With the help of bodyguards they were trying to make the people enter the culture house, and jostle broke out,” added Sara Petrosyan.
To remind, by a government decision, an irrigation system is being constructed in the gorge that will take water from the Azat River and send it to Kaghtsrashen and Narek communities in Ararat province. The villagers claim that the Garni gorge is jeopardized and say the water will be piped to irrigate the lands and fish farms belonging to the Prime Minister.
Even public discussion hasn’t been organized on this issue.
