This is supposed to be viewed as an act of bravery or desperation. I view it as an ill-conceived plot of idiocy.
The European Union Delegation issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Members States´ Heads of Mission in Armenia.
One of Aleksanyan’s friends told Hetq that he was in the area where demonstrators had gathered outside the security cordon surrounding the police building seized on Sunday, when he heard explosions.
Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, in an announcement made before the start of toady’s government cabinet session, said that “the armed seizure of a police patrol building on July 17 was unacceptable and deplorable because it is impossible to effect real change through the use of violence.”
A two-month old baby in the Erebouni district of Yerevan, the site of last night’s clashes between demonstrators and police, had to be taken to a local hospital after suffering respiratory problems due to the tear gas fired by law enforcement.
Early this morning, after calling on demonstrators to leave the area around the police building seized on Sunday, the police moved in and detained those who remained.
The situation in Yerevan’s Erebouni district remains tense even though clashes between police and demonstrators have subsided.
Tensions erupted last night in Yerevan when demonstrators and police clashed at the security cordon set up around the police building seized by armed attackers on Sunday morning.
45 people were injured last night when clashes broke out between demonstrators and police at the security cordon set up around the police building seized by armed attackers on Sunday morning.
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