Exploding balloons injure 144 in Armenia

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Ottawa Citizen, Canada
May 4 2012

Exploding balloons injure 144 in Armenia

Reuters May 4, 2012 4:11 PM

YEREVAN, Armenia – An explosion injured at least 144 in central
Yerevan on Friday during a campaign rally by Armenia’s ruling party
two days before a parliamentary election, a local emergency official
was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

Local media said it appeared that gas-filled balloons had exploded at
the rally in the central Republic Square after being ignited by a
cigarette.

Sunday’s election is widely seen as a test of democracy and a
potential challenge for President Serzh Sarksyan, elected in 2008.

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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