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    "MIATSUM" SUPPORTERS MARCH TO GENOCIDE MEMORIAL; BURN PROTOCOLS IN EFFIGY

    http://hetq.am/en/society/miatsum-14/
    2009 /10/06 | 21:57

    Society

    Yesterday evening, members of the "Miastsum" movement marched from
    the Mergelyan Institute in Yerevan to the "Tzitzernakaberd" Genocide
    Memorial and symbolically burned a copy of the Armenian-Turkish
    protocols.

    The crowd carried signs and banners reading "Traitors, Get Out",
    "No to the Turkish Protocols" and "Those Who Hand Over Lands Are
    Traitors". "Miatsum" member Jirayr Sefilyan said that his organization,
    contrary to others, rejects the protocols outright as well as the
    process that has lead to their signing. "We have no illusions that
    our symbolic burning of the protocols will stop the process. It is
    simply an outburst of the majority of the people," Mr. Sefilyan noted.

    A scuffle broke out between the protestors and police when
    Mrs. Parandzem, a mother of a fallen freedom fighter, tried to burn
    a photo of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

    A top-ranking police official on the scene called "Miatsum" member
    Tigran Khzmalyan a "failed artist" and suggested that the director
    stick to making movies and sculpture. In response, Mr. Khzmalyan
    stated that the actions and insults of the police only go to show the
    deep level of alienation between the current regime and the public at
    large. "The police should be defending the public and the constitution
    and not the band of thugs who trample these values," he stated.

    Mr. Sefilyan said they weren't aware that the woman intended to burn
    a photo of the president and that it was a spontaneous act.

    "What took place was a spontaneous outburst but a citizen has the
    right to express an opinion in the way he or she sees fit. It was a
    symbolic act that will reverberate in the public's eye," he noted.

    Mr. Sefilyan declared that the organization would step up its
    propaganda campaign against the protocols and that similar symbolic
    burnings of the document and a signature petition would soon take
    place in various Yerevan neighbourhoods.
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