Friday, March 18, 2011

Thousands of Armenian opposition call for a revolution and the resignation of Prime Minister

Yerevan. Thousands of Armenian opposition .- focused today on the Freedom Square in the capital of this Caucasian country demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian, and start a velvet revolution. "It's time to perform in Armenia a velvet revolution. But every revolution has its political evolution.

We will not resort to violence," said Levon Zurabián, coordinator of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC). Opponents, who do not have permission to protest, made it into the square after the riot troops were cordoning off let them pass without resistance, according to Armenian agencies.

The municipality of the capital of Armenia has no opposition demonstrations in the square of Liberty since March 2008, when ten people died in the post-election clashes between police and opposition. The first Armenian president and current opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian, warned that today's demonstration was the "last warning" to the authorities and threatened with a popular revolution similar to the ones happened in Tunisia and Egypt.

CNA spokesman, Arman Musini, suggested the possibility that the merger will extend overnight, but will be decided after the expected involvement in the plaza of Ter-Petrosian. The opposition Heritage party leader, Deputy Raffi Ovanisián was declared Tuesday in a hunger strike in the square.

The ANC, which was created in August 2008 and includes a dozen political parties and organizations, is proposing the release of political prisoners, human rights and call for early presidential and parliamentary elections. Protests 1 and March 2, 2008 against fraud in the presidential elections of February 19 led to violent clashes, after which the Armenian government declared a state of emergency was in force for 20 days.

In the elections, which were approved by the OSCE, was elected President Serge Sargsian, dolphin, Robert Kocharian, who led the country bordering Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan between 2000 and 2008. Both Russia and France, home to a large Armenian diaspora have supported since then Sargsian, which is contrary to NATO and supported the establishment of diplomatic relations with Turkey.

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