Violent Clashes Remembered in Armenia
Armenia — By Ashley Killough on March 2, 2010 11:19 pm
© Ashley C. Killough
On Monday, thousands gathered in Yerevan to commemorate the deadly events of March 1, 2008, when large-scale violence broke out in the streets of Yerevan between police and oppositionists protesting the results of Armenia’s disputed presidential election two years ago. Levon Ter-Petrosyan, oppositionist leader and head of the Armenian National Congress, addressed crowds Monday night near The Matenadaran before oppositionist members marched through the centre of Yerevan. In his 50-minute speech, Ter-Petrosyan lambasted the current administration, criticizing its handling of the country’s current challenges and condemning the Turkish-Armenian normalization process as “humiliating.”
The audio slide show below captures the state of affairs two years after clash.
Tags: Armenia, human rights, levon ter-petrosyan, march 1, police clashes
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Excellent account, much needed, Ashley! There was much too little coverage at the time: very little in the international media and a shameful silence from the Armenian Diaspora. I would only make the comment that “payqar” is better translated as “struggle” rather than “fight”; the former elucidates the serious, ongoing nature of the task and its nonviolent meaning for the democracy movement in Armenia.
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