We got in touch with Mayor Kochinyan for some answers. His reply was short and to the point. “Stay as far away from me as possible and don’t enter this village. You were here on Saturday. You think I don’t know?”
I should note here that a few weeks ago a bus headed for Armenia was stopped by some armed militant a few kilometres from the Turkish border. The militants entered the bus and seeing there were Armenians on board on the way to Armenia, they let it continue on.