Armenian Opposition Holds Rally In Downtown Yerevan

ARMENIAN OPPOSITION HOLDS RALLY IN DOWNTOWN YEREVAN

ITAR-TASS
04.07.2008, 21.50
Russia

CIS and the BALTICS

The Armenian opposition held a rally near the Matenadaran Institute
of Ancient Manuscripts in downtown Yerevan on Friday. Police said
about 6,500 people took part in the action.

Supporters of first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrossian plan
to start an open-ended sit-in, radical opposition co-leader David
Shahnazarian told the rally. He said that form of protest would end
with a new presidential election.

Ter-Petrossian’s press secretary Levon Zurabian said that the sit-in
would end on August 1, when the opposition holds the next rally
under the slogan of the impeachment of President Serzh Sargsyan and
a new election.

The opposition marched down the city center and chanted
anti-governmental slogans.

The Armenian radical opposition wants an early presidential election,
Ter-Petrossian told the rally. He once again blamed the authorities
for the March 1-2 riots, in which ten people, including two police
officers, died.

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