SENIORS BLOCK HIGHWAY TO PROTEST PENSION NON-PAYMENT – VIDEO

14:36, July 10, 2013

Here’s an interesting clip that shows how people outside Yerevan take
their complaints to the streets, literally.

These senior citizens you see here, residents of several villages from
the Abaran area, claim that they haven’t received their pensions for
the past week.

Amidst the shouting and emotional outbursts, it is clear that they feel
they have no other recourse but to stop traffic on the local highway.

Naturally, police officials quickly arrived on the scene to reopen
the road and to calm passions.

The seniors, who say they have been forced to buy food and other
goods on credit, seem steadfast.

One old-timer, in a face to face confrontation with a local official,
openly said he would bring all the kids and women from his village
to form a human wall on the road.

Another said that at his age he has nothing to lose by taking such
actions.

>From what I could gather from the various overlapping conversations
is that certain “big-wigs” have delayed the pension payment from the
area and are using the money for personal business interests.

One protestor named RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan’s sister’s
son as one of the culprits.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress