"ACTIONS OF POLICE WERE NOT COMPETENT AT ALL," IMPEACHMENT REPRESENTATIVE STATES
Noyan Tapan
May 10 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. "The actions of police were not competent
at all and pursued a single purpose, to disperse and cause panic among
people, which they failed. Impeachment representative Nikol Pashinian
said in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent commenting upon the
conflict between participants of May 9 rally organized by Impeachment
bloc, Nor Zhamanakner and Hanrapetutiun parties and law enforcement
bodies.
In his words, the goal of the peaceful procession towards the building
of RA National Security Service was to express opposition’s protest
in connection with kidnappings, political persecutions and violence
in the country. In N.
Pashinian’s words, at the moment when they were going to announce
the rally closed, "law enforcement bodies started to push people to
the opposite pavement creating a danger of pressing, to which the
demonstrants showed an adequate resistance."
In N. Pashinian’s words, 7-10 thousand people took part in the rally.
In the words of the opposition figure, during the conflict law
enforcement bodies used clubs and tear-gas. In his words, 4-5 rally
participants got slight bodily injuries.
Estimating the process of Impeachment’s election campaign, N. Pashinian
said that they held a "brilliant" election campaign and their rating
has risen by geometric progression."