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  • VIDEO: 'Talk Less, Will You?' Syunik Governor Belittles Environmenta

    VIDEO: 'TALK LESS, WILL YOU?' SYUNIK GOVERNOR BELITTLES ENVIRONMENTALIST

    epress.am
    12.21.2011

    During a recent visit to the remote Armenian village of Qajaran
    (also spelled Kajaran), environmental activists met with Suren (Surik)
    Khachatryan, governor of the marz (province) of Syunik, where Qajaran
    is located. The governor threatened local activist Mariam Sukhudyan,
    saying "relax... remain a little rational, see that nothing happens
    to you" and then belittling her, said, "Ay, [little] dragonfly,
    talk less, will you?"

    Recall, the environmentalists along with the residents of the village
    are asking that the government decision to hand over 181 hectares
    of land belonging to Kajaran and several other villages in the
    southeastern Syunik province to the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine
    (Plant) be annulled and the lands returned to the villages. The plant
    plans to extend its open-pit mining operations in the region.

    The video (in Armenian only) was uploaded on YouTube by the activists.

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