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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

Armenia boxers visit world boxing champion on hunger strike

news.am, Armenia
Aug 17 2020
15:58, 17.08.2020                           

YEREVAN. – Israyel Hakobkokhyan, Armenia’s world boxing champion who has been on hunger strike in downtown Yerevan for five days now, was visited Monday by his fellow boxer friends who had come to be by his side, as well as to persuade him to end his hunger strike, as, according to them, it will harm his health.

The fellow boxers, however, could not persuade Hakobkokhyan to end his hunger strike.

World boxing champion Israel Hakobkokhyan has been on a hunger strike since August 12, and against the incumbent authorities’ policy, which, according to him, violates Armenian national values. He is protesting against the Istanbul and the Lanzarote Conventions, the Amulsar gold mine project, and some other matters.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS