About 6,000 people join opposition rally in Yerevan

Interfax Russia
May 6 2007

YEREVAN. May 6 (Interfax) – The Orinats Yerkir [Law-Based State]
opposition party organized a rally in the center of Yerevan on Sunday
to protest the leadership’s political course. The rally brought
together about 6,000 participants.

"The current leadership is discrediting Armenia. All forms of
pressure are being used against the Orinats Yerkir party. But this
has not prevented us from drawing 10,000 new members to the party
ranks over the past week," Artur Bagdasarian, the party’s leader and
ex- parliamentary speaker, said.

"We must be prepared to fight in the period to go before the
parliamentary elections, on the polling day on May 12, and after the
parliamentary elections. And if we find out afterwards that
vote-rigging practices were used, we’ll say our emphatic ‘No’ to this
and fight to the end," Bagdasarian said.

If the results of the elections are falsified "a serious blow will be
dealt at Armenia’s prestige," he said.

Sociological polls indicate that Orinats Yerkir has a good chance of
winning up to 12% votes in the upcoming parliamentary elections. sd

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS