Armenian rights activist blames government for upset order

Arminfo
20 Apr 04

YEREVAN

The chairman of the public deputy organization (?Supreme Council) and
human rights champion, Ruben Torosyan, told a news conference today
the Armenian government dispersed a peaceful opposition demonstration
on [Yerevan’s] Bagramyan Avenue on the pretext of maintaining order
which it repeatedly upsets itself.

He said that the council has been implementing the project “No to
corruption at the top” since June 2003. The project mainly aims at
studying, registering, preventing and rooting out corruption in the
higher echelons of power which in the end undermines the
constitutional order in the country.

[Passage omitted: talks about violation of law and falsified results
of polls]

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