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    YEREVAN HAS TURNED INTO A CITY OF EXPULSIONS

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    02:42 pm 30 March, 2006

    Four days ago the representatives of the Compulsory Services threatened
    the gardeners of Gjurdjian St. to pull down their territories on
    April 1 which have thousands of fruit trees.

    The threats have begun since the autumn of 2004. A case was brought
    against 14 gardeners, and 6 gardeners have already received a decision
    of expulsion. About 400 - 500 families are doomed to become homeless.

    The gardeners organized a protest on this score in front of the
    Residence of Robert Kocharian demanding a fair solution to the
    problem. They have turned to the City Hall, the Prosecutor's Office
    and the Ministry of Justice many times but all in vain. The gardeners
    are forced to release the territories cultivated by them for 30 years
    in order to restore the former view of the territories and they are
    told that this action is motivated by the fact the gardeners illegally
    took the forest territories. Whereas the gardeners claim that those
    territories were not forests before, they were simply sloping places
    of 50 - 60 degrees full of snakes and scorpions, stones and garbage
    taken from the community Nor -Nork. "Before our moving here there
    were many cases of infant deaths because of infection registered
    in the maternity hospital of Masiv. It is already 10 - 15 years we
    haven't had such cases as we cleared the territory, planted trees
    and enriched it with oxygen," said the gardener Svetlana Movsisian.

    They made an application to privatize the lands in the Soviet period
    and the Government only cheered them up.

    By the way, the gardeners have annually paid 14 thousand AMD as a
    rent. They also turned to the Chief of the district Nor - Nork David
    Petrosian with the same question who apologized them saying that the
    matter is beyond his responsibilities and liabilities and it must be
    solved by the City hall.

    Today 3 gardeners handed a letter to the representative of the
    President's Office where they were told that their matter would be
    discussed after the arrival of the representative of the City Hall.

    "The President may not be aware of the occurring, his heart remorse
    may wake up, let's ask him not to make us vagrants, otherwise we
    shall turn to all the embassies asking for political asylum in their
    countries," said Seda Melikian. Let us mention that she sent a letter
    to the President 2 months ago and got the same answer.
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