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    POLITICAL ACTIVIST ON TRIAL URGES YEREVAN MAYOR NOT TO BETRAY HIS FATHER

    07.16.2014 16:55 epress.am

    At the start of today's trial in the case against political activist
    Shant Harutyunyan and his friends, Harutyunyan urged Yerevan Mayor
    Taron Margaryan (pictured) not to install the statue of Soviet leader
    Anastas Mikoyan in the Armenian capital.

    According to Harutyunyan, if the municipality wants to install
    monuments of Bolsheviks, it can install monuments to Kamo (Semeno
    Arshakovitch Ter-Petrossian), Sarkis Kasyan, and Aghasi Khanjyan,
    for example.

    Mikoyan, unlike the others, Harutyunyan said, is a traitor not only
    to the state, but also to his family and father.

    "At least you, whose father was Andranik Margaryan, dear Taron, you
    should know well what a sordid structure the KGB is. The KGB corrupts
    a man until the end, forces him to betray not only his country, but
    also his father. Don't become a son who betrays his own father. If
    you're forced because of your position, at least install Kamo's statue,
    not Mikoyan's," he said.

    Taron Margaryan's father, Andranik Margaryan, during the Soviet
    years was a member of the underground National Unity Party, which
    campaigned for Armenia's succession from the Soviet Union. In 1974,
    he was arrested and sentenced to two years in Soviet labor camps for
    fighting against the Soviet regime.

    Recently, there has been much discussion on social networking sites
    and in local media concerning the municipality's decision to erect a
    monument to Soviet leader Anastas Mikoyan. Many public andcultural
    figures, academics, and civil society activists are against the
    decision.

    http://www.epress.am/en/2014/07/16/political-activist-on-trial-urges-yerevan-mayor-not-to-betray-his-father.html

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