"TREES WERE UPROOTED AS THEY WERE OPPOSITIONAL"
A1+
[09:33 pm] 02 April, 2007
The tree planting initiated by A1+ was forbidden on groundless
motivations.
Alexandre Afyan, lieutenant-colonel of RA Police central department,
claims they have been unaware of the tree planting.
"You make a needless fuss. I say to you that you have no right to
plant trees here," he said. Then he picked up a row with some fellows
who were eager to plan trees.
Avag Danielyan, head of "Greenery of Centre" Ltd, said, "Trees
shadow the lawn. It means will shall be deprived of the lawn after
the tree planting." It is noteworthy that meanwhile the policemen
were carelessly stepping on the lawn.
"Neither democracy nor freedom of speech is rooted in our society. I
suggest finding a better and nicer site for tree planting and voice
hope that the trees won’t be uprooted. The remedial forces cannot
forbid everything; they must merely take care of the security of the
action, nothing more," Larisa Alaverdyan former ambassador said.
Stepan Zakaryan, secretary of the People’s Party noted, "I came to
understand that trees can also be oppositional. We must only plant
"pro-governmental trees" and to worship the acting authorities. I
call these trees oppositional as they don’t meet the corresponding
standards; the authorities demand everybody to worship and praise
them."