10:14, 1 March 2023
YEREVAN, MARCH 1, ARMENPRESS. Lawmakers held a moment of silence in commemoration of the victims of the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan asked MPs to observe the moment of silence at the March 1 plenary session.
Eight protesters and two police officers were killed in the violent suppression of anti-government street protests that followed a disputed presidential election held in February 2008 which saw Serzh Sargsyan take office. Former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the main opposition candidate in the ballot, rallied his supporters to protest against alleged vote rigging.
Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters held nonstop rallies in Liberty Square until they were forcibly dispersed by riot police early on March 1, 2008.
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