UP TO 50,000 PEOPLE TOOK PART IN OPPOSITION RALLY IN YEREVAN
Interfax
March 1 2009
Russia
A rally organized by the opposition Armenian National Congress has
ended with a march in downtown Yerevan.
Participants of the action led by ex-Armenian President Levon Ter-
Petrosian laid flowed on the square where ten people were killed and
over 250 were injured during last year clashes between opposition
and police.
>From 40,000 to 50,000 people according to various estimates took
part in the march. This was the most large-scale opposition action,
Arman Musian of the Armenian National Congress told Interfax.
Reinforced units of police and special troops escorted the marchers.
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