ARMENIAN PAPER ACCUSES UK EMBASSY OF INSTRUCTING OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS

Hayots Ashkharh
Dec 4 2008
Armenia

An unattributed report in the paper says that two embassy officials
on 26 November visited the head of the opposition Miatsum initiative,
a group that supports making Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagornyy
Karabakh part of Armenia and the release of "political prisoners". The
report said that after the meeting Zhirayr Seyfilyan, the coordinator
of the Miatsum initiative, and other activists started a hunger strike
in central Yerevan, demanding that the government reject making any
concessions to resolve the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.

The newspaper asks whether the embassy is guiding the actions of
the Miatsum, saying that the major goal of this organization is
"struggle against the government". The paper concludes that "strange
masters-mentors have gathered" in the UK embassy because "instead
of teaching teenagers not to behave badly, they are teaching them
to misbehave".