Protest Actions Resume Several Hours After Emergency Rule Lift

PROTEST ACTIONS RESUME SEVERAL HOURS AFTER EMERGENCY RULE LIFT

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.03.2008 16:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Several hours after the lift of the state of
emergency, hundreds of Yerevan citizens with candles, black ribbons
and portraits of those arrested and killed on March 1 and 2 took the
streets toward Liberty Square. Their march was stopped by policemen
armed with batons and shields, who surrounded the Square.

Presently, the number of demonstrators doesn’t exceed a thousand,
mostly women and youth.

Silent protest march is expected to extend from Liberty Square up
to the monument to Alexander Myasnikyan at the French Embassy. The
demonstrators are instructed not to block the traffic, walk at 1-meter
distance and have a photo of a political prisoner and candles. They
were also told to tape the mouth to protest limitations on media
freedom.

The action initiators called not to yield to provocation and refrain
from offending policemen and journalists, Armenia Today reports.

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