8 PROTEST ACTIONS HELD THROUGHOUT ARMENIA TODAY

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.04.2008 21:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Opposition supporters held 8 protest actions held
throughout Armenia today. A mourning event took place in the center
of Yerevan; a group of people picketed the U.S. Embassy.

Residents of Syunik region of Armenia lit candles on their window
cells to mourn over those killed in March 1 and 2 melees.

Several thousand of people gathered nearby the French Embassy in
Yerevan and laid wreaths to the monument to Alexander Myasnikyan. They
demanded to release the oppositionists kept in custody.

RA NA member Victor Dallakyan and former presidential hopeful Tigran
Karapetyan also arrived at the site, as they said, to honor the memory
of the killed.

An hour later, police started to drive away the gathering. The action
initiators called on their supporters to leave and meet several
hours later at Republic Square where festivities on occasion of the
President’s inauguration will be held, IA Regnum reports.