Menua Brudyan - 28 years old

“There is no law on earth, whether criminal, humanitarian or democratic, that can steal away one’s vote. It is not for sale. They deceive and buy them with money. They created such a social situation where the people are attracted by those kopeks.”
 
“We demand that our right for a free election be reinstated.”

“I have a special sympathy for Levon. In my view he’s the only one that can unite the people.”

“We must get this election annulled. We will accomplish this through peaceful marches and sit-down strikes as our elected president has stated.”

Levon Babajanyan - 17 years old

“In 1988 our fathers fought against the foreign enemy. Today, we face an internal enemy who is worse.”

“They injure us and the servants of the oligarchs attack the proxies of the opposition parties and take them off to Sevan to be stranded. I saw fraud take place that day with my own eyes and people being beaten. The Arabkir District Leader beat up our campaign headquarters’ chief in front of my eyes. And you talk about rights?”

“If we didn’t believe it, we wouldn’t be here. The police patrols attempted to misdirect us on the way here but we got here just the same because today this was the place to be.”

“Our friends telephoned us to say that they had been locked in their classrooms, to prevent them from coming here.”

“I’m not a Ter-Petrosyan fanatic and I don’t say that he’s right all the time. But today’s situation demands that we be here today at his side.”

“Even if Levon Ter-Petrosyan becomes president there won’t be a regime change since the Parliament is controlled by the Republican Party. But I’m confident that the mechanisms of government will change. There are decent guys within the Republican Party as well. If the government mechanism change the quality of the government will improve.”

Ishkhan Gevorgyan - 18 years old

“I don’t like the fact that a few individuals control everything and that the well-being of others is dependent on them.”

“It was important for me to be here today. I felt the need to be here.”

“I’m not really interested in politics. I’m thinking about my future and that of my friends. We’re all good students All we want is to have a normal future.”

Hayk Khalapyan - 19 years old

“ I can’t say what the outcome will be. I always believed that the elections would be free and fair. Now I realize they weren’t.”

“I want things to change. There’s no future here. Just a few people decide everything.”

“I demand a second stage of the elections and a T.V. debate. I want the T.V. stations to broadcast what is taking place here today so that even the villagers be informed.”

“Ask anyone in the street and they’ll tell you about the fraud they saw during the elections, even if the observers didn’t see anything. In this regard, I don’t even know why they came to Armenia in the first place?”

“Why doesn’t the T.V. broadcast the developments of the past three days? Why don’t the international monitors comment on all this?”

“In my view Serzh Sargsyan didn’t win. Neither can I say that Ter-Petrosyan won. That’s why I call for a second-stage.”

Garen Hakobyan - 18 years old

“I am sure that fraud took place and I want the election to be declared null and void. The regime must take us into account.”

“I am satisfied with the response of the people.

If Serzh Sargsyan can only bring people to his meetings through intimidation, we are here today out of our own free will.”