Angry protesters storm Armenian parliament against peace deal

Soon after the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced of a peace deal with Azerbaijan and Russia, angry protesters stormed the Armenian parliament in Yerevan. As per reports, the Speaker was  reportedly lynched by the protesters as well. As per reports gunshots could be heard in the streets of Yerevan as the angry protesters stormed the government building, looking for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the early hours of Tuesday.

The report said that Pashinyan’s whereabouts are currently unknown. Armenia’s parliament is also reportedly under control of the protesters. Speaker of the Armenian parliament, Ararat Mirzoyan, was reportedly beaten up by protesters and is in serious condition. In a statement issued on his facebook account, Armenia's Prime Minister Pashinyan said, “The decision is made basing on the deep analyses of the combat situation and in discussion with best experts of the field".Later, in another Facebook Live broadcast from an unknown location, Pashinyan said that all participants in the Yerevan “pogrom” will be severely punished, reported RT.com.

The signing of the peace deal to end the military conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region comes after more than a month of bloodshed. Arayik Harutyunyan, the leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, said on Facebook that he gave agreement “to end the war as soon as possible”. Under the terms of the agreement, Azerbaijan gets to keep the territory it has taken in the most recent fighting, with Armenia ceding additional territory over the next month, leaving Russian peacekeepers guarding a road connecting the remnant of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia proper, RT.com reported. Nagorno-Karabakh falls within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces since a war between the South Caucasus neighbors there ended in 1994.