"One dead" after police break up protest in Armenia

EuroNews, France
March 1 2008

At least one person has reportedly died after police in the Armenian
capital broke up opposition protests.

Riot police moved into Yerevan’s Freedom Square in the early hours
and used truncheons to get rid of demonstrators, who have been in
situ for 10 days after a presidential election they claim was rigged.

Dozens of people were injured in the dispersal.

Protesters then moved on to in front of the French embassy.

Several thousand opposition supporters have protested daily in the
square since Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan was elected.

Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan has led the protests.

He also ran in the election, which Western observers called broadly
fair.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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