Former residents of Northern Avenue in downtown Yerevan, evicted from the homes on the basis of public domain to make way for new residential and commercial high-rise buildings, staged a protest today outside the Government Building. "For six years we have been waging a struggle to have our trampled rights restored to us. But our efforts have been in vain. These people have no homes and are living on the streets," declared Vachagan Hakobyan, President of the "Property Rights Defense" NGO. Today, Mr. Hakobyan lives in his mother-in-law’s one room apartment along with six others. Before being evicted he was living in a 500 square meter house on Pushkin Street that he had inherited. "Robert Kocharyan and Yervant Zakharyan organized the theft of our property Former Yerevan Mayor Zakharyan gobbled it all up and now they've appointed him as head of the Cadastre. Now, no one cares a damn for us," Mr. Hakobyan said. Mariam Gishyan, a former resident of 30 Lalayants Street now lives on the streets with her six children since she can no longer afford to rent. "My boy Grigor witnessed the genocide when the bulldozer droze into our house when my kids were asleep. To shut me up they took him away to the Sovetashen prison for ten days." Grigor was supposed to get drafted into the army but I say "I’ll give soldiers to the one who gives me a country. They don't deliver soldiers to the enemy. My children have lost everything." Also at the demonstration were Gohar Sargsyan and Anahit Kirakosyan, whose two sons died while serving at a military base. They were in the crowd holding up pictures of their sons. They advised Mariam to do whatever she could to get her boys from serving in the army