Post-election tensions mounting in Armenia

Emil Lazarian News

Radio Netherlands, Netherlands
Feb. 24, 2008

Post-election tensions mounting in Armenia

Published: Sunday 24 February 2008 14:08 UTC
Last updated: Sunday 24 February 2008 15:50 UTC

Yerevan – Tensions in Armenia are mounting in the wake of Thursday’s
presidential elections. The poll was won by Prime Minister Serzh
Sarkasian, a close associate of outgoing President Robert Kocharian.
Opposition candidate Levon Ter-Petrosian claims he lost because of
electoral fraud and intimidation.

Some 20,000 people demonstrated today in the capital Yerevan in
support of Mr Ter-Petrosian. On Saturday, around 50,000 people turned
out. Several hundred opposition supporters are camping out in the
capital’s central square.

The authorities arrested a number of demonstrators and sacked three
foreign ministry employees for taking part in the protests.

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