Arrest of head of former Armenian ruling party extended for 2 months

Interfax News Agency, Russia
May 6 2008

Arrest of head of former Armenian ruling party extended for two months

YEREVAN May 6

A court has extended the preliminary arrest of Ararat Zurabian, the
leader of the opposition Armenian National Movement, for two more
months, said Karan Karapetian, a member of the Armenian National
Movement’s board.

The Armenian National Movement was the ruling party during Levon
Ter-Petrosian’s presidency before 1998.

According to information from the Armenian Prosecutor General’s
Office, 58 people are currently under preliminary arrest on suspicion
of involvement in the March 1 unrest in Yerevan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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“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