According to official numbers, 8 people were killed and over a hundred severely injured. Since March 1st, over a thousand opposition supporters have been detained and questioned, over a hundred are in custody and have been formally charged, the media ...
Mkrtich Sapeyan was the organizer of the Talin rally. As\such he was responsible for ensuring the safety of the crowds and to see that order was maintained. Naturally, he would have been responsible for any dissident or slanderous comments made during the ...
A - First, let me say that the people who assembled near the French Embassy gathered there spontaneously, no organizers were present. They were the people who had been beaten and mauled in Freedom Square early that morning and who were quite perturbed as a ...
The Chief Prosecutor of the ROA has stated that on Election Day, February 19th, at around 2 p.m. in the 36/34 polling station in the town of Maralik, Mr. Urutyan, in the presence of witnesses, beat and caused bodily injury to Suren Avetisyan, a proxy of Serzh ...
A friend of the slain Sepuh, who wished to remain anonymous, relates that, “Sepuh, his brother and another pal called up the General’s son to tell him that his advances towards the girl weren’t welcomed.” This friend notes that what ...
Grezelda Ghazaryan and her daughter Gayaneh had participated in all the Levon Ter-Petrosyan rallies. That evening at around 9 p.m., upon the invitation of the wife of Vahan Shirkhanyan, a former Deputy Minister of Defense, the two women decided to walk towards ...
Melik Ayvazyan, the Village Mayor of Odzun, who goes by the nickname ‘Alabash Melo’, has seemingly gone out of his way to see to it that the residents there suffer the consequences of their political actions. The families of local residents Albert ...
Hovik is 46 years old. He participated in the oppositional rallies following the February 19th presidential elections. He camped out during the nights at Opera’s Freedom Square. Below, we present his unedited account of what transpired during the day of March 1st and into the wee hours of the next morning.
The internal political crisis in Armenia was intensified following the presidential elections held on February 19, 2008. On February 29th, just hours before the bloody events were to unfold, Armenian TV. had been constantly bombarding its viewers with the footage of newly elected President Serzh Sargsyan and Artur Baghdasaryan, leader of the “Orinats Yerkir” (Rule of Law Party), congratulating each other with champagne toasts.
The State of Emergency in Yerevan decreed by the President of Armenia ends today. For twenty days public rallies were prohibited and for all intensive purposes there was no working oppositional mass media. The society was forced to listen to the one-sided news of the government and the pro-government media outlets. Widespread arrests of the supporters of former presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan continue unabated.
In the wee hours of the morning of March 1st, Gagik Shamshyan, a photojournalist for the papers Chorrord Ishkhanutyun and Aravot, was in Freedom Square. He had decided to do a photo story about how the people at the sit-in were preparing to greet the first day of spring. However, the police who had arrived to disperse the crowd wound up severly beating the photographer.
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