MP Grigoryan must be held accountable if found guilty, says HHK

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Politics

The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has issued a statement about the footage released by the national security service concerning arrested MP Manvel Grigoryan and the charges against the lawmaker.

HHK said it was “deeply saddened and angered” by the video which was presented by the NSS, showing the discoveries at the lawmaker’s compound.

“It is hard to believe that this is true. We are stunned and angered that something like this is possible by anyone in our reality, moreover by a general who actively took part in the Artsakh War. This is unacceptable and despicable,” HHK said.

Citing the presumption of innocence, the HHK said that if Manvel Grigoryan is found guilty he must be held accountable “under the entire strictness of the law”, regardless of his position.

“Anyone breaching the law, regardless of past or present official positions, party affiliation, must be held to account before the law,” the statement said.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS