The reason for such a campaign against Manukyan was her publication on the corruption and lawlessness in the police structure of Armenia. Certainly, `guardians of law` turned against her. She also exposed to the outside threats. Assistant police chief, Malyan and colonel, Merikhyan sent a warning letter, demanding to suspend the use of obscene language in her critical publications. The journalist even published her correspondence with Merikhyan where he used abusive language.
Afterwards, Manukyan published an article called `The true face of the Armenian police`. The article accuses the Armenian law enforcement bodies of unlawful actions not only against the Armenians living in their homelands, but also against those settled abroad, being against the Sargsyan regime. It is not acceptable to speak and write critically about the police in Armenia and therefore such kind of publications are few. It is unclear how the police ensured the praise of the mass media remaining loyal to its internal bodies and turning the blind eye to their abuses against their employees. Manukyan writes, it is possible to keep people silent by means of money.
However, it does not always work because sometimes police officers leave an image of cruel behavior.
Therefore, numerous drams cannot hide the violation of justice by the police. The courage need to be shown with real deeds not through the `coloring` in the media.
In addition the real structural reforms do not exist practically whereas the West allocates huge amount of money for the modernization of police. Police reports about effective spending of the allocated money. The journalist claims, actually no structural reforms exist and all these actions are like a staged play.
`People working in police do not care about their security duties and do their jobs in treatment with opposition-minded people. In some cases, the representatives of this structure organized an informational provocation against opposition-minded people living abroad. Their purpose is to protect those in power. One of the examples is the information attack to the mass media, and personally to me. This is aimed by the high-ranking police whose actions are turning into the real psychological and terror action. Although the names of initiators have been told in Manukyan`s case, the law enforcement agencies have not reacted to it at all.
It has been a long time that the Armenian police stopped to operate as law enforcement structure, transforming into a kind intelligence. `Today it is a real face of the police of the Republic of Armenia,` Manukyan writes.
