Armenia explodes as trilateral agreement ends war in Nagorno-Karabakh

Protests sparked in Armenia in response to the signing of the trilateral agreement on a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh. Hundreds of people broke into the parliament building, took the seats of the MPs and the presidium and demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan should come out to them.The protesters dragged parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan out of the car and beat him, after which his security guards locked the speaker inside the car. Mirzoyan was later hospitalized. He suffered a few injuries that posed no threat to his life. The protesters also broke into the building of the Armenian government. They broke down doors and tore the plaque off the prime minister's office. Nikol Pashinyan said that all the instigators of the pogroms would be brought to justice. The protesters looted Pashinyan's residence too. "A computer, a watch, perfumes, driver's license and other items were stolen from the prime minister's residence. All this, of course," in the name of the motherland," Pashinyan wrote on Facebook. The Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia issued a joint statement in connection with the protests that sparked as a result of the announcement about the end of the war in Karabakh.