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    VIOLENT ARMENIAN ELECTION PROTEST ENDS

    United Press International
    March 2 2008

    YEREVAN, Armenia, March 2 (UPI) -- Yerevan was reported calm Sunday
    after post-presidential election clashes in the Armenian capital
    between protesters and riot police left nine dead.

    Demonstrators clogged the streets for 11 days over allegations of
    election fraud and vote rigging in the country's Feb. 19 elections.

    Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian asked his followers to leave
    the protest Sunday in an effort to stop the violence, CNN reported.

    "We will avoid any public meeting and marches, and we will concentrate
    on the constitutional court where we are expecting the case to be heard
    and discussed (Tuesday)," opposition spokesman Arman Musinyan said.

    Ter-Petrosian reportedly promised he would move forward with election
    protests peacefully within the legal system.

    Former Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisyan defeated opposition presidential
    candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan by a 2-to-1 margin, but protesters said
    the vote was rigged in Sarkisyan's favor, RIA Novosti said.
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