ZHIRAYR SEFILYAN WAS TO ORGANIZE COUP D’ETAT?

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[01:27 pm] 11 December, 2006

Zhirayr Sefilyan, coordinator of the initiative "Protection of
Liberated Lands" and leader of NGO "Union of Armenian Volunteer",
was arrested yesterday.

According to the press center of the National Security Service, they
have information that the so-called initiative "Union of Armenian
Volunteer" with citizen of Lebanon Zhirayr Sefilyan and some of his
friends at the head, aimed at interfering with the coming political
processes in Armenia, particularly the 2007 elections, without even
being registered in Armenia.

According to the statement, on December 2, 2006, during the closed
session if the Yerevan State Dance College, several of the heads of the
structure called on those present to resort of force in order to take
power. According to the press center of the National Security Service,
they announced that the only way to get rid of the authorities is
through armed rebellion.

They have also introduced action plans.

"The majority of the people included in the "Union of Armenian
Volunteer" was unaware of the real aims of foreign citizen Zhirayr
Sefilyan and his friends to destabilize the inner political situation
in Armenia.

The leaders of the organized financed by foreign sources intended
to urge the opposition to political disobedience and collisions,
exercising pressure upon the political oppositional parties, in
order to take up illegal actions against the RA authorities", said
the statement of the press center of the NSS.

A criminal case has been in initiated. Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan
Malkhasyan were arrested yesterday. They were carrying illegal weaponry
which was confiscated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress