SMALL OPPOSITION RALLY HELD IN YEREVAN

Interfax News Agency
April 9 2008
Russia

Armenian opposition representatives rallied to commemorate activists
who died in tragic events on March 1.

A small opposition rally was held in a square opposite the French
Embassy in Yerevan before the inauguration of president Serzh Sargsyan.

About one hundred people gathered to honor the memory of those who
died as a result of the dispersal of the opposition meeting and unrest
that took place in Yerevan on March 1.

Small groups of five or ten people, supporters of former candidate for
presidency Levon Ter-Petrosyan shouted slogans: "Levon – president!",
"Fight to the End!" The participants held lit candles, black ribbons
and photos of the opposition activists who died or were arrested. David
Shakhnazarian, supporter of Ter-Petrosian and member of Armenian
National Movement, also came to the square.

Head of Yerevan Police Department Nerses Nazarian went out to the
gathered opposition supporters, he informed the participants of the
action on its illegal nature and asked them to leave the square.

After an hour and a half the opposition began to leave.

The situation is now calm in Yerevan on the day of the president’s
inauguration.