ARMENIA: OPPOSITION ARRESTS AFTER UNREST
New York Times
March 5 2008
NY
The police have arrested 30 opposition activists and accused them
of starting a riot on Saturday in which eight people were killed,
the prosecutor general said. A series of anti-government rallies
after the Feb. 19 presidential election, which the opposition says
was rigged, erupted in street battles between demonstrators and the
police on Saturday. Armenia then imposed a 20-day state of emergency.
Soldiers continued to patrol the streets of the capital, Yerevan, and
armored personnel carriers stood in the main square. "The situation
in Yerevan is fully under control," Gen. Seyran Ohanyan, Armenia’s
top military commander, said at a news conference.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
