Armenian police search homes of opposition activists, arrest two

A1+, Armenia
February 26, 2008

26 February: Yesterday the police started wide-spread searches at the
homes of activists from the team of [opposition candidate in 19
February presidential election and former Armenian President] Levon
Ter-Petrosyan and of the heads of [Ter-Petrosyan’s] election
headquarters all over Armenia. At this moment the police are at the
house of Garnik Margaryan, the chairman of the Homeland and Honour
Party, where a search is being carried out.

Ter-Petrosyan’s election headquarters has told A1+ that Garnik
Margaryan, the chairman of the Homeland and Honour Party, and Samvel
Harutyunyan, former mayor of the city of Goris [Syunik Region], have
been arrested.

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