Insurgents surrender leaving police regiment compound in Yerevan
YEREVAN, August 1. /ARKA/. Armenia’s national security service reported Sunday night that the police-gunmen standoff in Yerevan was over and the men who seized the police regiment compound two weeks ago surrendered to the police putting down their guns and leaving the seized area.
It became known earlier that the insurgents said they were intended to surrender to the authorities and announced themselves war prisoners.
Varuzhan Avetisyan, told 1in.am that in recent days the police were sending bullets in Sasna Dzrer group members’ legs to incapacitate them, and on Sunday one of the revolted men was wounded I his chest.
The rebels were left with two options – to fight against the police inflicting a heavy toll on both sides and shedding blood of those people who have little to do with the ruling regime’s decisions or to surrender as war prisoners and continue struggle by using every possible means, he said.
“This is a very difficult decision to us – we have chosen the status of war prisoners,” he said. “We consider our mission completed.”
Avetisyan stressed that people's movement has already begun.
Sasna Dzrer, the insurgents who seized the police regiment compound two weeks ago, demand the release of Jirayr Sefilian, a Karabakh War veteran who was jailed about one month earlier in suspicion of illegal weapon possession, from jail and the resignation of the country's rulers. --0---
It became known earlier that the insurgents said they were intended to surrender to the authorities and announced themselves war prisoners.
Varuzhan Avetisyan, told 1in.am that in recent days the police were sending bullets in Sasna Dzrer group members’ legs to incapacitate them, and on Sunday one of the revolted men was wounded I his chest.
The rebels were left with two options – to fight against the police inflicting a heavy toll on both sides and shedding blood of those people who have little to do with the ruling regime’s decisions or to surrender as war prisoners and continue struggle by using every possible means, he said.
“This is a very difficult decision to us – we have chosen the status of war prisoners,” he said. “We consider our mission completed.”
Avetisyan stressed that people's movement has already begun.
Sasna Dzrer, the insurgents who seized the police regiment compound two weeks ago, demand the release of Jirayr Sefilian, a Karabakh War veteran who was jailed about one month earlier in suspicion of illegal weapon possession, from jail and the resignation of the country's rulers. --0---