OPPOSITION HOLDS PROCESSION IN YEREVAN
news.am
April 6 2010
Armenia
At 8:30 p.m. local time, thousands of supporters of the opposition
Armenian National Congress (ANC) started a procession in the center
of Yerevan. The NEWS.am correspondent working at the scene reports
that the demonstrators demand the President’s resignation and early
elections, chanting anti-government slogans. The procession is moving
along Mashtots Avenue.
The demonstrators intend to go along Amiryan St. as far as Republic
Square. The procession will traditionally be finished on North Avenue.
The procession is led by young people with uniforms on, a symbol of
political prisoners in Armenia.
The ANC Chairman, Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan,
as well as the leaders of the other opposition political forces,
is at the head of the procession.