Law-enforcers use special means in Kirants: five hospitalized 

ArmInfo.  As a result of the use of a special light-noise device by law enforcement officers in 

the village of Kirants, Tavush region of Armenia, 5 citizens were hospitalized - 4 women, 1 man and two police officers, the National Front reports. 

It is noted that after examinations, all of them were discharged from 

the hospital. Video footage of the medical care provided was also 

distributed online. Meanwhile, the Armenian Ministry of Internal 

Affairs hastened to assure that no special equipment was used during 

the clashes. However, it was confirmed that two law enforcement 

officers were hospitalized. The Ministry of Internal Affairs assured 

that the police suffered at the hands of demonstrators, who allegedly 

hit them with stones and sticks. However, video footage from the 

scene of the incident shows that there are no stones or sticks in the 

hands of citizens.

Citizens were injured as a result of clashes that occurred late in 

the evening of April 26. Residents of Kirants surrounded one of the 

cars trying to drive along the road, which they blocked in protest 

against the delimitation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, 

according to which 4 villages of Tavush should unilaterally go to 

Azerbaijan.

Tavush residents demanded that the people in the car get out. They 

believed that surveyors were in the car to carry out mapping work.

To open the road for the passage of a car without license plates, the 

special forces - "black berets" - began to use force against 

citizens, and a clash occurred between the citizens who blocked the 

road and the police.

Later it became known that Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, who 

is the main negotiator with the Azerbaijani side on demarcation 

issues, was in the car. Residents of Kirants village heard him 

talking on the phone with Nikol Pashinyan.

Government media hastened to refute this information, assuring that 

specialists from Armenian government departments went to the village 

of Kirants in order to study and inventory the problems of the 

residents of this locality and adjacent territories.

As Armenpress was told in the office of RA Deputy Prime Minister Mher 

Grigoryan, the information disseminated in the media that Mher 

Grigoryan was also in the car with specialists does not correspond to 

reality.

Residents of the border villages of Tavush have been holding protests 

on the Armenia-Georgia interstate road on the Kiran-Voskepar section 

since April 19. They oppose the border delimitation option agreed 

upon by Yerevan and Baku, as a result of which strategic heights will 

pass to Azerbaijan and Armenian villages will be completely or 

partially surrounded. Residents of Tavush have been spending the 

seventh night on the blocked Voskepar-Kirants road.

On April 19, the commissions for demarcation of the border between 

Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to begin demarcation of the border from 

the Tavush region. According to them, the description of these 

sections of the border line will be drawn up taking into account the 

clarification of the coordinates that will be obtained as a result of 

geodetic measurements on site. All this will be documented in the 

appropriate protocol description, which must be agreed upon and 

signed between the parties before May 15 of this year.