YEREVAN POLICE DISPERSE PEACEFUL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTESTERS
Armenian Weekly
March 16, 2012
YEREVAN (Yerkir)-A large number of police raided a peaceful protest
organized by environmentalists at the city’s Mashdots Park on March 14
and forcibly dispersed the protesters, witnesses at the scene reported.
A large number of police raided a peaceful protest organized by
environmentalists.
Police, which according to eyewitness accounts numbered in the
hundreds, ran into the park where the protesters gathered around a
tent and raided the tent, pushing and shoving through the crowd.
“They pulled one of the protesters from the tent and dragged him out.
His eyeglasses fell and he could not see anything in the dark,”
said one eyewitness.
When the police burst on the scene, those gathered at the park to
protest environmental policies and abuses by the government were
talking among themselves and drinking tea.
At one point, the number of police outnumbered the protesters.
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