DALMA MALL LAND-USER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN FRONT OF GOVERNMENT BUILDING

Tert.am
15:18 ~U 24.12.09

A man, around 60 years of age, attempted to commit suicide by slitting
his neck with a razor in front of the government building in central
Yerevan today.

Police immediately surrounded the individual, later identified by
police as Rudolph Minasyan, and were able to revive him, after which
they restrained him and took him to the central police division.

Asked by Tert.am why he attempted to take his own life, Minasyan only
responded by saying that he is striving for justice.

Police later informed the press that Minasyan is one of the individuals
who was given the right to plow the land (a right granted to about
700 land-users in the form of ten-year tenancy agreements) that has
now been sold to make way for Dalma Garden Mall – a two-storey mall
set to be the biggest shopping centre in Yerevan.