Armenian opposition figure ends hunger strike after meeting with Catholicos

Emil Lazarian 2020
JAM News
Dec 1 2020

    JAMnews, Yerevan

Representative of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun party Gegham Manukyan has ended his hunger strike on the ninth day.

He began his hunger strike on November 23 demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, claiming, like thousands of other protesters and more than a dozen opposition parties, that the truce Pashinyan signed on November 10 was equivalent to the ‘voluntary surrender of the Karabakh territories to Azerbaijan.’

On December 1, Manukyan reported that the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II had visited him and asked him to end his hunger strike, ‘as there are other methods of political struggle.’

“It was difficult to reject the appeal of the Catholicos. From now on, together with our comrades-in-arms, we end the hunger strike and continue the struggle. A new day, a new struggle,” Gegham Manukyan wrote on his Facebook page.

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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