Agence France Presse — English
January 26, 2005 Wednesday 2:47 AM GMT

Armenian neo-Nazi leader charged with inciting ethnic hatred

YEREVAN Jan 26

The controversial leader of Armenia’s neo-Nazi Armyano-Arian Order
was arrested late Tuesday for inciting ethnic hatred with his
frequent anti-Semitic statements, the prosecutor general’s office
said.

Armen Avetisyan may face up to six years in jail for inciting
inter-ethnic and inter-religious hatred, propagating superiority of
one race over another and insulting the Armenian nation’s dignity,
officials said.

Avetisyan, who during his latest news conference called Armenia’s
authorities “yid and Mason agents that must be swept off the face of
the earth”, said “his trial will turn into a Nuremberg trial of the
Jews,” a local newspaper reported.

Avetisyan has also drawn up lists of those high-ranking officials he
says are homosexuals, demanding that they be fired and threatening to
publish the lists if they are not.