Armenia Police ban signature campaign demanding Syunik Province community leaders’ release

News.am, Armenia

The police today banned our signature campaign today demanding the release of Syunik community leaders and other political arrestees. Elizabet Petrosyan, the wife of Vahe Hakobyan—opposition "Armenia" bloc member, leader of the Reviving Armenia Party, and former governor of Syunik Province—, on Saturday wrote this on Facebook.

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