NKR POLITICAL FORCES PURSUE DISMISSAL OF OFFICIALS HAVING BEATEN PAVEL
MANUKIAN
STEPANAKERT, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN. “The health condition of NKR MP
candidate Pavel Manukian who was cruelly beaten in the cabinet of NKR
Defence Minister Seyran Ohanian remains stable,” the June 23 press
release of ARF Artsakh Central Committee read. According to doctors,
Manukian got a “close skull-cerebral trauma.” On June 22, the victim’s
wife, Marine Manukian, applied to NKR Prosecutor General’s Office with
a demand to immediately institute a criminal case. In addition to the
names of already known generals, in her application Marine Manukian
also mentioned the names of A.Haroutiunian, V.Balayan, M.Hakobian.
Pavel Manukian in his interview to the Yerkir Media Yerevan TV company
on the phone declared that Defence Minister Seyran Ohanian, Deputy
Defence Minister Samvel Karapetian and other generals being in the
Minister’s cabinet were among those who beat him. In the evening of
June 22 the ARF Artsakh Central Committee sent a letter to NKR
President Arkadi Ghukasian demanding that the leadership of NKR
Defence Ministry be dismissed. “Realizing the important problem of
preservation of home political stability in the country, the ARF
Artsakh Central Committee condemns the created situation and expects
fair solution,” the letter, in particular, read. It was mentioned that
such action carried out by the commander of Defence Army permits to
suppose that an atmosphere of fear and horror will be created in the
country. On June 23, on the initiative of the ARF Artsakh Central
Committee and Movement-88 party a number of NKR political parties made
a statement condemning the act of violence. “The only and most correct
way is taking of immediate measures by the President of the republic,
guarantor of preservation of legality, for the purpose of maintaining
calmness inside the country, preventing possible political excess, as
well as not endangering the international image of our non-recognized
republic,” the parties’s statement, in particular, read.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress