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Armenia Declares State Of Emergency Over Protests

ARMENIA DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER PROTESTS

Japan Economic Newswire
March 2, 2008 Sunday 1:39 AM GMT

Armenian President Robert Kocharian declared a 20-day state of
emergency Saturday as pitched battles continued in the capital Yerevan
between opposition supporters and police in the wake of the Feb. 19
presidential election, Russian media reported.

Reports by Interfax news agency and other news organizations said
several thousand protesters clashed with police, who used tear gas
to disperse them.

Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan, under house arrest, told his
supporters to go home until the state of emergency is lifted March 20.

The report said one person was killed and more than 30 others injured
in the Yerevan clashes.

Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian beat Ter-Petrosian in the election in
the former Soviet republic but the protesters said the vote was rigged.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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