STRUGGLE AGAINST RULING REGIME REQUIRES COMBINED EFFORTS, MOVEMENT MEMBER SAYS

Tert.am
19.08.11

Zhirair Sefilyan, a Sardarapat movement member, has posted the
following statement on his Face-book page:

“We will be able to get rid of the ruling regime by cooperating
with various opposition hotbeds. It is important for us to combine
efforts to protect the people persecuted by the regime – despite our
own political disagreements.”

The statement is actually a response to the statement issued by seven
young ANC members on Aug. 16. The young ANC members, who had been
detained by police, were critical of the Sardarapat movement for not
adequately responding to the “police violence against them.

In its earlier statement, the Sardarapat movement issued a statement
condemning the Aug. 9 incident. The movement called the police action
against the seven young ANC members “one more manifestation of the
gangster regime that occupied Armenia.”

“Any persons or forces negotiating with, and expecting anything of,
the criminals responsible for the March 1 crime, which has not so
far been solved nor will it be under the incumbent regime, got a
resounding slap from the ruling coalition on August 9.

“The so-called opposition forces, servile and cowardly, are trying to
justify the police violence by President Serzh Sargsyan’s absence as
well as attempts to thwart the so-called negotiation process by some
mysterious forces,” the movement’s statement said.