Activists Greeted With Applause And Cat-Calls At Yerevan State Unive

ACTIVISTS GREETED WITH APPLAUSE AND CAT-CALLS AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY CIVIC ACTION
Narek Aleksanyan

15:01, February 13, 2013

A group of Yerevan State University students mocked those participating
in a civic action organized today by a group called “Young People
are the Motivating Force”.

Organizers say all they want to do is to remind young people,
especially college students that they too should get active in the
social and political life of the country.

They were met with puzzled faces and cat-calls from some groups of
students hanging out at one of the entrances to the university.

One activist held a sign that read: “The regime is snatching our
youth. Who must prevent this if not you?”

The activists told this reporter that the regime had effectively
neutralized young people from actively participating in civic affairs
through its control on the administrative and student councils in
colleges and universities.

The activists were greeted with applause from students at the
university’s Faculty of Law and by those at the nearby State University
of Economics.

Cops had to separate the activists from a group of university students
who started to mock them.

When an activist with a bullhorn asked the students to join them in
the struggle to build the country’s future, they laughed in response,
“What future? Here’s your future”.

From: Baghdasarian