LEVON TER-PETROSSIAN’S SUPPORTERS CARRIED OUT DISORDERS IN CITY

DeFacto Agency
March 3 2008
Armenia

YEREVAN, 03.03.08. DE FACTO. On March 1 Levon Ter-Petrossian’s
supporters, who disagreed with the results of the presidential
elections in RA, carried out disorders in the centre of Yerevan. In
part, clashes with police were provoked, as a result of which there
are victims. The clashes took place on the territory adjoining Yerevan
city hall, as well as on the crossroad of Mesrop Mashtots and Grigor
Lusavorich streets. To remind, on March 1, in the morning, Armenia’s
law enforcement organs carried out operation on dispersal of the
opposition’s unapproved meeting on the Freedom Square. The decision
to conduct the operation was made after numerous notices concerning
illegal nature of the meeting and requests that it should be stopped.

After the meeting’s dispersal on the Freedom Square Levon
Ter-Petrossian’s supporters headed for France’s embassy in RA. The
meeting’s participants scanned "Levon! Levon!", "Levon is the
President", "Struggle to the end". Meanwhile, by the evening the
meeting developed into disorders. The participants of the protest
rally robbed cars and shops.