"LET THEM EXILE US FROM ARMENIA"

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[01:34 pm] 14 December, 2007

Relatives of the crew of the YAK-40 crashed in the Islamic Republic of
Iran May 17, 2001, held a protest action near the Armenian Government
today.

Reminder: five members of the Armenian airplane belonging to the
"Armenian Airlines" Company died in the result of the crash.

The demonstrators demanded their benefits unpaid for 31 months.

We have been knocking at different doors for a few years but we have
found no response. They delay the matter every day. We are already
sick and tired of the whole business. If they don’t want to solve
the matter, let them say it directly," Jemma Hovhannissian says.

The dead pilots have got old parents, under-age children who live
in dire need. They cannot even afford their bare necessities. While
today they are deprived even the sum earned by the honest sweat of
their relatives.

Susanna Grigorian is confident that the Prime Minister hasn’t got
their letter otherwise he would have solved the matter.

"If they cannot find a solution we shall ask them to exile us from
Armenia as we can no longer live in the country," they said.