Armed group has two demands: Struggle enters second stage (video)
“The operation cannot be considered a heroic feat by our glorious police. Rather, it is typical of criminal elements. Even Azerbaijani would not have thought of such a plan during the Artsakh war,” Alek Yenigomshyan, a member of the Founding Parliament opposition movement, said commenting on the overnight firefight between the police officers and Sasna Dzrer group members, that left two gunmen and one policeman wounded in the area of the seized police building in Yerevan’s Erebuni district. Armenak Kyureghyan said, in turn, that he had talked to his son, Areg Kyureghyan, who remains inside the police HQ cordoned off by the police. Areg repeated the same words which his father had told A1+ Company earlier in the day. “An agreement had been reached with law enforcers to hand over an injured rebel. Pavlik Manukyan went along. The police opened fire and wounded him. Aram, Pavlik’s son, ran to his father and was wounded, too. Two other guys, Gagik and probably Aram, ran with stretchers to take their wounded friends. They were arrested. There is a guy in the police compound who is lightly wounded,” he said. Armenak Kyureghyan repeated once again that the other two members of the group, Gagik Yeghiazaryan and Aram Hakobyan, did not surrender to the law enforcement authorities, as it is presented. “Police and people are facing each other [on Khorenatsi street]. They [authorities] are deliberately aggravating the situation; they intend to take Armenia to chaos. They have launched a propaganda war against their own people. I even doubt whether I am in Armenia or in some other country,” Mr Kyureghyan said. In reply to a journalist’s question why the coordination committee sent people home at night, Mr Yenigomshyan said, “When we noticed that there is such a provocation, we decided to understand the regime's intentions. We realized that they clearly wanted to provoke violence amongst the protesters. Considering the seriousness and consequences of the situation, we made such a decision to avoid further provocation and confrontation." Mr Yenighmshyan added that the struggle is entering the second stage and its strategy would be finalized during the next rally on Wednesday evening. “We shall agree our future steps with people,” he said. “This is a nation-wide movement. We do not lead it, we only coordinate it,” he said.
