Artsakh Human Rights Defender responds to police chief`s verbal attack against journalist
Mkrtchyan, during protests in the village of Kirants, the territory of which the authorities are unilaterally handing over to Azerbaijan in violation of RA legislation, in response to the remark of an Artsakh journalist that the same thing would happen to the residents of this community as what happened to 120 thousand Armenians of Artsakh, suddenly asked him The question is where is he from? Having received a response from Artsakh, Mkrtchyan stated cynically: "Why didn't you stay there? Why did you leave Artsakh?"
Reacting to these attacks by Mkrtchyan, the Human Rights Commissioner of Artsakh drew attention to the fact that the question "Why did you leave Artsakh?", which the head of the Tavush police asked photojournalist David Ghagramanyan, is not an ordinary question that is asked during a constructive dialogue.
"This is a question that is asked in a situation where they deliberately try to insult a citizen of Artsakh who is already suffering from the pain of losing his homeland, when they try to say that Armenia is not your homeland and you have no right to speak. They do this deliberately, with the aim of causing pain .
Moreover, this policeman is not the only one who asked a similar question during this time. I am sure that those who ask this question know the answer very well, and there is no need to once again explain to them the consequences of the people of Artsakh being under the control of Azerbaijan.
And if a person decides to ask such a question, having seen the daily pain of thousands of his fellow countrymen, then no advice or recommendations will save him from this disgusting abyss of stupidity and immorality," Stepanyan concluded.