Former police general charged with misconduct

| 11:19 | September 26 2018

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Society

Lt. Gen. Levon Yeranosyan, the former commander of Armenia’s police troops, also known as the Interior Troops, who also served as Deputy Chief of Police of Armenia, has been charged with misconduct, the Special Investigative Service (SIS) reoported

According to the indictment, Yeranosyan allegedly illegally deployed stun grenades during the 2018 April mass demonstrations in Yerevan. The stun grenades injured more than 40 people, according to the charges. Yeranosyan is suspected in violating the rules of deploying the special measures and lacked qualification for similar orders.

Yeranosyan has been banned from leaving the country.

The SIS said that an investigation is ongoing.

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