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    Emil Lazarian
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    • Categories: 2020

Past.am: Armenia PM Pashinyan instructed throwing clergyman down National Security Service basement

News.am, Armenia
Dec 21 2020
 
 
 
14:46, 21.12.2020
 
Past.am of Armenia writes: Former acting director of the NSS [National Security Service], Mikayel Hambardzumyan, confirmed in an interview yesterday that during his tenure [in the aforesaid capacity] there were cases when he refused to fulfill the Prime Minister’s instructions.
 
According to our reliable sources, [PM] Nikol Pashinyan gave such an order to Colonel Hambardzumyan regarding Bishop Arshak [Khachatryan], Chancellor of the Mother See [of Holy Etchmiadzin], which Hambardzumyan did not carry out.
 
According to our sources, Pashinyan literally instructed to “throw” the clergyman “down the [NSS] basement, ‘break’ his head so that he could be disciplined.”
 
Hambardzumyan told the Prime Minister that he could not give an order to raise a hand against a clergyman, after which he [Pashinyan] proposed [Hambardzumyan] to write a petition [for dismissal], leave, which was met.
 
To note, in his addresses and interviews Bishop Arshak Khachatryan has repeatedly sharply criticized the incumbent Armenian authorities.
 
 
 
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