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07:10 pm 07 March, 2006

“This outrageous operation against the Heritage Party and its leader is
one further link in the chain of a new campaign of threats,
intimidation, and introductory terror carried out by the incumbent
presidency and its security apparatus,” – that’s how charP0cterizes the
press service of the party the incident which happened several days
ago.

Let’s remind that on March 4, 2006, an anonymous telephone caller
informed Heritage Party officials that `agents from the KGB are breaking
the entrance door’ of Heritage’s headquarters located at 7 Vazgen
Sargsian Street in the center of the capital. Responding to the call,
party representatives arrived at the scene and witnessed the process of
replacement of the entrance door’s already-smashed lock.

According to the message, the incident is connected with opposional
activities of the leader of `Heritage’ Raffi Hovhannisian:”Notably, this
campaign has followed on the heels of Raffi Hovannisian’s recent public
activity, citizens’ initiatives and freely expressed opinions, and has
been launched through the use of large-scale technologies of slander by
the state-supervised propaganda machine and its stooges against the
long-standing institutions of high repute headed by Raffi and Armenouhi
Hovannisian. In this latest chapter, the `party of power’ aims to
paralyze Heritage’s activities in advance of parliamentary elections and
other developments of interest. It is not to be ruled out that the
acting authority, based on its own fear and lack of public legitimacy,
will continue its policies of persecution with imaginary, trumped-up
charges to be made against the party and its members.”