MINOR ARMENIAN PARTY CALLS FOR REVOLUTION "TO GET RID OF REGIME"

Regnum, Moscow
6 Sep 06

6 September: The opposition New Times Party [NTP] believes that
the recent events in Armenia – the killings of the head of the
investigation department of the Armenian Tax Service, Shagen Ovasapyan,
and the incumbent head of the village of Dalar, as well as the beating
of the editor-in-chief of Iravunk newspaper, Ovanes Galadzhyan – show
that it is high time for the resignation of heads of law-enforcement
agencies.

The press service of the party said that the security agencies
prosecute political parties instead of fighting criminal elements. The
state agencies’ activities are aimed at keeping power for their own
benefit, the party said.

A domestic policy and socioeconomic atmosphere in the country are
being destroyed because of the lack of radical and structural changes
which undermines all spheres of public life as well. The leadership
of the party believes that now it is more than important to get rid
of the criminal regime through revolution. Given this, the NTP calls
on the public to unite and resolutely fight crime to exclude criminal
elements from public life.