Armenian border residents protest land handover to Azerbaijan
Residents of several communities in Armenia’s Tavush Province on Saturday resumed protests against the planned land handover to Azerbaijan.
The protests came after the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday announced a border delimitation deal envisaging the surrender of four villages in Tavush to Baku.
People in the villages of Kirants, Baghanis and Voskepar claimed the statement contradicted what Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told them at closed-door meetings earlier this week.
"They want to allow those who killed a sleeping Armenian [a reference to Armenian Lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan hacked to death while asleep by Azeri officer Ramil Safarov in 2004] to be stationed adjacent to the Kirants school," publicist Hovhannes Ishkhanyan said in a video from the protest site.