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ARMENIAN OPPOSITONIST CALLS FOR 'VELVET, CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION'
Tert.am
20:15 ~U 09.09.11
Chief Editor of the local daily Haykakan Zhamanak has called for
Armenians to take to the streets in an attempt to implement what he
called a "constitutional revolution" in the country.
Speaking at a rally on Liberty Square in central Yerevan late on
Friday Nikol Pashinyan said that thousands of citizens are being
tortured in police stations, while the army has become a "machine
that gobbles the children of its own nation".
"Revolution is of vital necessity for Armenia. I am calling on you to
prepare for a constitutional revolution," said Pashinyan, an activist
of the opposition Armenian National Congress.
Further, he stated their format of replacing Armenia's current
leadership - 500,000 protestors on Liberty Square and a 24-hour
deadline for the leadership to resign.
Speaking of the revolution, Pashinyan called on supporters to take part
in the next rally as leaders of the revolution for what he called the
"triumphant start of the Armenian velvet revolution".
Nikol Pashinyan, a political prisoner, also condemned the police
action over the recent arrest of youth opposition activists, saying
the police know no other way of speaking to their own people.
"The sergeant regime has not quit the idea of turning Armenia into
a country house," said he.
"A revolutionary situation is in place in Armenia, because there is
the country and the people that have several problems, and there is
the junta that has seized the power," Pashinyan added.
Tert.am
20:15 ~U 09.09.11
Chief Editor of the local daily Haykakan Zhamanak has called for
Armenians to take to the streets in an attempt to implement what he
called a "constitutional revolution" in the country.
Speaking at a rally on Liberty Square in central Yerevan late on
Friday Nikol Pashinyan said that thousands of citizens are being
tortured in police stations, while the army has become a "machine
that gobbles the children of its own nation".
"Revolution is of vital necessity for Armenia. I am calling on you to
prepare for a constitutional revolution," said Pashinyan, an activist
of the opposition Armenian National Congress.
Further, he stated their format of replacing Armenia's current
leadership - 500,000 protestors on Liberty Square and a 24-hour
deadline for the leadership to resign.
Speaking of the revolution, Pashinyan called on supporters to take part
in the next rally as leaders of the revolution for what he called the
"triumphant start of the Armenian velvet revolution".
Nikol Pashinyan, a political prisoner, also condemned the police
action over the recent arrest of youth opposition activists, saying
the police know no other way of speaking to their own people.
"The sergeant regime has not quit the idea of turning Armenia into
a country house," said he.
"A revolutionary situation is in place in Armenia, because there is
the country and the people that have several problems, and there is
the junta that has seized the power," Pashinyan added.