French Police Use Force Against Armenians in Paris Protesting Visit of President Sargsyan
[ 2009/10/02 | 19:07 ]
“Hetq’s” correspondent in Paris has just reported that French police attempted to disperse crowds of people who gathered by the Komitas statue in the French capital to protest the scheduled visit of RoA President Serzh Sargsyan at 2:00 pm for a wreath laying ceremony.
Protestors included supporters of the three traditional Armenian political parties and mere concerned members of the Armenian community in France. Our correspondent reports that all the protestors had decided to sit down near the statue until the arrival of President Sargsyan that was originally scheduled for 2:00 pm and later pushed back to 3:00 pm.
“Then the police arrived on the scene and surrounded the demonstrators warning them not to shout any slogans and to put down their signs. The police started to pull people away, ripping their clothes and hitting them. I saw them pushing one old woman out of the square,” reports our correspondent.
Our correspondent reports that President Sargsyan has failed to appear at Komitas statue located in the Place du Canada. “Hetq” will have further details of this story as they come in plus photos taken on site of the police action.
October 2nd, 2009 at 23:53
I am glad to see the spyurk finally coming to their senses and protesting this illegitimate president and his defeatist policies; all in the name of currying favor with the West.
Too bad the Spyurk was all but invisible after the fraudulent presidential elections of 2008. It is now reaping the fruits of their neglect.
All this goes to show we as a people need to seriously think of how we can go forward together for the good of the nation.
This means that the diaspora must finally come to the realization that the RoA is the responsibility of all of us and that we all have a stake in its future viability and democratic development.
How striking it is that almost 20 years after independence we Armenians, who boast being an intelligent and creative people, have yet to get their act together and lay the true foundations for an Armenia we can all be proud of and that can serve as the springboard to realize our true national potential and ambitions.
We blame the Turks for not realizing the talents of our people and thus going ahead with their genocidal policies.
But we must admit to ourselves that we have done precious little since independence to prove them wrong.
Our martyred dead must be spinning in their graves in shame at what we have, or haven’t done, to honor their sacrifice and memory.
October 3rd, 2009 at 00:07
Levonakans in Armenia should know too well what happens even in a country as democratic as France when you have protests to DEGRADE and INSULT the President of a country. They should know this before letting brainwashed teenagers onto the streets of Yerevan with the aim of insulting Armenia’s President and statehood. Levonakans’ democracy is tantamount to “neo-fascism”, and I’m beyond content that Levon failed in his attempt to seize Armenia by force on March 2008, just like he tried and succeeded in 1996.
As to the protocols, I totally support Serge Sarkissian on this. After hearing all the opinions in the Diaspora and Armenia, the only individual who makes sense , and who truly thinks about the future (albeit knowing about the risks), and who DOES something (rather than wait around and procrastinate with the status quo) is Serge Sarkssian. Time will show that what he did was right. ABSOLUTELY right.
I don’t hate Turks any less than the average Armenian, for what they did. But pragmatism is what shapes politics. As long as we defeat the internal enemy (the followers of Levon) Armenia will be on good track to become a healthy country. Levonakanutyun should be completely defeated. That’s the main challenge
October 3rd, 2009 at 07:51
Dear Sergio,
It does not matter who is in the government head and who is not, to me one politician is not better than the other, as long as our people can voiced out their opinion regards our politicians freely.
Right now we diaspora Armenians concerned about those protocols between Turkey and Armenia, and the consequences of those protocols over Armenia’s statehood.
October 3rd, 2009 at 08:19
Sergio
guys like you and Serge Sarkissyan can make good money in Turkey!
October 3rd, 2009 at 09:43
Het Sergio,
Take your warped ideas of democrcacy and please stay where you are.
I’m telling you from first-hand experience, those people in Yerevan after the fake and fraudulent presidentila elections in 2008 were ready to storm the government building and the presidential palace.
They didn’t need any encouragement from Levon Ter-Petrosyan. In fact, LTP and others calmed the masses down.When you have 50,000 people marching through the streets of Yerevan a lot can happen and people can get hurt.
Only after the government attacked peaceful protestors on Opera Square on the morning of March 1st, did the rest of the opposition supporters say “Never Again” and confront the police and military.
So don’t lecture us about democracy here in the RoA and please don’t point to Serzh Sargsyan as someone who has a clue about foreign policy and the interests of Armenia.