Armenian world boxing champion: Pashinyan used to fight against exploitation of Amulsar gold mine

News.am, Armenia
Aug 13 2020

16:09, 13.08.2020
                          

World boxing champion Israel Hakobkokhyan, who has declared a termless hunger strike near the statue of Garegin Nzhdeh in central Yerevan, hopes people concerned about the destiny of the nation will hear his call to unite against the current authorities and will come together.

“The main goal of my hunger strike is to see people concerned about the nation gather around a table and decide what they can do to make the government resign soon,” Hakobkokhyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Hakobkokhyan, who is fighting against the Istanbul Convention and Lanzarote Convention, the exploitation of the Amulsar gold mine and other issues through a hunger strike, reminds that the current authorities would talk about these problems before coming to power, but have forgotten about them now.

“Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan used to fight against exploitation of the Amulsar gold mine, but now he is sending troops to beat the residents of Jermuk so that their just demand isn’t presented,” he stated, adding that citizens support his demands.

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