WHERE WERE YOU, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER?

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[02:25 pm] 01 March, 2008

At 10.30 a.m. people who were made out of the Liberty Square at dawn,
relatives of detained and missing people, as well as ordinary citizens,
who did not participate in the strike but were beaten by special police
groups, gathered in front of the French Embassy in Yerevan. Here,
the police was standing in rows. The number of demonstrators was
growing and they were exclaiming "Levon President", "Freedom",
"Fight to the end", "Serge, leave".

No employee from the Embassy has met the demonstrators yet. New
groups of citizens joined the demonstrators, who had organized a
march through North Avenue. Policemen in shields, helmets and with
truncheons arrived and wanted to surround the demonstrators, but the
latter continued crying out "Armenians join". The traffic is stopped
on Grigor Lusavorich Street, people get off the transport and join the
demonstrators, and drivers express their sympathy toward demonstrators.

Two trolleybuses have blocked the road and the demonstrators covered
them with posters written "We will win". A garbage lorry brought and
poured out as garbage what was left in the Liberty Square – tents,
bloody mattresses, child’ shoes, food etc. After this incidents the
demonstrators could hardly keep themselves not to assault on the
policemen and cried out "Arthur, traitor".

Among the demonstrators in front of the Embassy, you could see
the NA Deputy from the "Heritage" party Anahit Bakhshyan and the
RA Ombudsman. People were asking the Ombudsman where he was when
the policemen assaulted on the people in the Liberty Square. "What
happened in the Opera will continue here", warned the people.

We should remind that 15.00 they will hold a rally in front of the
French Embassy.