ARAM KARAPETIAN: POLICEMEN WHO BEAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AWARDED MEDALS FOR FEAT
Noyan Tapan
Dec 02 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The days of the ruling regime in
Armenia are numbered, and the main goal of the Anticriminal Movement is
to prevent a criminal coup from taking place in the country. Chairman
of the Homeland and Honor Party Garnik Margarian made this statemenmt
at the regular meeting of the Anticriminal Movement on December 1. In
his words, today the Movement also aims to hold representatives of the
power pyramid accountable for their criminal actions. For this reason,
according to G. Margarian, the subject discussed at the meeting was
related to illegal interference of the power structures in political
processes. Chairman of the New Times Party Aram Karapetian said that
he recently received some documnets about illegal activity of the
law-enforcement bodies from an anonymous source. According to these
documents, particularly many policemen who, in A. Karapetian’s words,
"beat people and threw eggs at them" during the mass rallies in April
2004, received letters of thanks, monetary prizes, weapons, some –
medals for feat a few days later by the order of the RA Police Chief
Hayk Harutyunian. In the decree, which A. Karapetian showed reporters,
the actions of these policemen were qualified as "keeping of the
public order". "And such actions are qualified as feats deserving
medals!" A. Karapetian said with resentment. He expressed confidence
that there is a group of people in the police too who realize the
inadmissibility of what happened than and maybe these people gave
him the above mentioned documents.