CONSOLIDATION OF ARMENIAN VOLUNTEERS PLANNED TO INTERFERE INTO COURSE OF FORTHCOMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS BY MAKING EXTREMIST ACTIONS, NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE DECLARES
Noyan Tapan
Dec 11 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The organization Consolidation of
Armenian Volunteers initiated by Lebanese citizen Zhirayr Sefilian and
a number of his supporters having no registration envisaged by RA law,
pursued the goal to undertake illegal, force intervention into the
coming political processes in the country, in particular, into the
elections to be held in 2007, by making extremist actions. This was
reported by RA National Security Service Press Service on December
11. According to the report spread by the Press Service, during
the closed conference held on December 2 at the hall of Yerevan
Choreographic School, some heads of the structure publicly called
for seizing RA state power by violence, forcible pressure and with
any means and for concrete actions: in particular, it was announced
that we should get rid of the current authorities only through armed
fight, revolt. Action plans in this direction were presented. The
leaders of the Consolidation of Armenian Volunteers had planned with
their systematized actions first of all to incite the opposition to
political disobedience and conflicts, at that, they had planned to
exert pressure on opposition political structures, too, for them to
undertake illegal actions against RA authorities," the report read. A
criminal case has been instituted by RA National Security Service
Investigation Department in connection with the fact, by the signs
of Article 301, RA Criminal Code (public appeals for changing RA
Constitutional order through violence). Organization leaders Vardan
Malkhasian and Zhirayr Sefilian were arrested on December 10.
Illegal fire-arms was found about the latter. To recap, Zhirayr
Sefilian was the Commander of Shoushi battalion, the Coordinator of
Defence of Liberated Territories public initiative and the Chairman of
Board of Trustees of Araks-Kur fund. According to the report received
from the Defence of Liberated Territories, they threaten Zh.Sefilian
to deport him from Armenia. Besides, the office of Araks-Kur fund, as
well as apartments of many members of the above mentioned organizations
were searched.