Activist calls out Pashinyan for border casualties
Political activist Edgar Ghazaryan has called out Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s administration for military casualties on the border with Azerbaijan.
His comments came after two Armenian soldiers were killed and another was wounded in Azerbaijani shelling near the village of Sotk early on Friday morning.
“The authorities are speaking of an imminent war, aren’t they?" Ghazaryan, a member of the Consolidation movement, told a news conference, highlighting that 57 military fatalities have already been reported this year.
The activist recalled that back in January 2018 then opposition MP Pashinyan called for punishment for those responsible for the deaths of soldiers.
"Behind every death there is a specific person, someone who is responsible for it, and we have to find them to stop these terrible news reports," Ghazaryan quoted him as saying.
He underscored that the operations of the Sotk gold mine, one of Armenia’s largest taxpayers, as well as the construction of a smelting plant in the border village of Yeraskh had been suspended due to Azerbaijani shelling.
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