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TER-PETROSIAN INITIATES NEW ACTIONS TO FORCE SERZH SARGSYAN PUNISH
THOSE GUILTY FOR MARCH 1
http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=115312
YERE VAN, JULY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. During the mass meeting of the Popular
Movement, its leader, the first president of Armenia Levon
Ter-Petrosian declared his intention to make the movement more active
to force the authorities to implement democratic reforms and
investigate the events of March 1st. Addressing the gathering of some
20 thousand people near the Matenadaran hill in downtown Yerevan,
Ter-Petrosian, who was one of the presidential candidates during the
February 19 elections, said his movement will undertake in July
numerous actions all over the country to show the authorities that the
movement is decisive in its efforts to have the political prisoners
free and those guilty for the violence of March 1st in Yerevan
punished. According to Ter-Petrosian, the first person guilty for the
March 1st bloodshed is the then president Robert Kocharian.
Ter-Petrosian also called Serzh Sargsyan to fire other officials who
are, according to him, to blame for the crimes of that day, namely the
current deputy prime minister Armen Gevorgian (in March he was the head
of the president's staff), the current head of president's staff Hovik
Abrahamian (who was then deputy prime minister), head of the National
Security Service Gorik Hakobian, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian
and the director of the Public TV and Radio Alexander Haroutiunian. The
first president said the next national meeting will be held on August
1st, "to sum up the first 100 days of presidency of Serzh Sargsyan and
to see if he fulfils the above mentioned demands. If no, the Popular
Movement will turn to demand early presidential elections,
Ter-Petrosian announced.
The meeting was followed by a rally in downtown Yerevan, which lasted
about two hours and ended at the Northern Avenue, where a sit-in strike
was started, one of the actions to be held before the August meeting.
THOSE GUILTY FOR MARCH 1
http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=115312
YERE VAN, JULY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. During the mass meeting of the Popular
Movement, its leader, the first president of Armenia Levon
Ter-Petrosian declared his intention to make the movement more active
to force the authorities to implement democratic reforms and
investigate the events of March 1st. Addressing the gathering of some
20 thousand people near the Matenadaran hill in downtown Yerevan,
Ter-Petrosian, who was one of the presidential candidates during the
February 19 elections, said his movement will undertake in July
numerous actions all over the country to show the authorities that the
movement is decisive in its efforts to have the political prisoners
free and those guilty for the violence of March 1st in Yerevan
punished. According to Ter-Petrosian, the first person guilty for the
March 1st bloodshed is the then president Robert Kocharian.
Ter-Petrosian also called Serzh Sargsyan to fire other officials who
are, according to him, to blame for the crimes of that day, namely the
current deputy prime minister Armen Gevorgian (in March he was the head
of the president's staff), the current head of president's staff Hovik
Abrahamian (who was then deputy prime minister), head of the National
Security Service Gorik Hakobian, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian
and the director of the Public TV and Radio Alexander Haroutiunian. The
first president said the next national meeting will be held on August
1st, "to sum up the first 100 days of presidency of Serzh Sargsyan and
to see if he fulfils the above mentioned demands. If no, the Popular
Movement will turn to demand early presidential elections,
Ter-Petrosian announced.
The meeting was followed by a rally in downtown Yerevan, which lasted
about two hours and ended at the Northern Avenue, where a sit-in strike
was started, one of the actions to be held before the August meeting.