POLICE DRAG AWAY PROTESTERS

3/miatsum
September 23, 2009

The "Miatsum" initiative today staged a protest action in front of the
presidential residence against the recently announced Armenian-Turkish
Protocols.

"If you don’t seek bloodshed, go away in peace," ran Miatsum’s poster
which incited a skirmish between the protesters and policemen.

The police got indignant after seeing Serzh Sargsyan’s photos in
posters. They elbowed their way through the crowd and approached the
mother of perished Karabakh war hero Edik Torozian. In an instant,
the police grasped the poster from Ms. Parandzem and hid it in a
police car.

"My son didn’t fall for traitors like you. I don’t want an illiterate
governor, who is ready to surrender the liberated territories,"
said Ms. Parandzem.

The police didn’t allow the protesters to gather near the presidential
residence. The action continued in the opposite pavement with the
participants chanting: "Go away, hucksters. Only traitors cede
territories."

Miatsum’s next protest is due on September 25.