Remember this?
So it’s 2 years since those protests on Baghramyan Avenue, when peaceful protestors were shot with water cannons, and violently beaten. Many have forgotten this, and it seems Mr Kocharyan is enjoying a perceivably high amount of power.
A1 plus has the story here
I also had a look at our friends over at Cilicia.com and pulled up the logs from April , take a look at how the repats there felt at the time here. ( scroll down to 12th April)
Saw this and thought of this blog :S
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4907552.stm
Comment by estavisti — 4/13/2006 @ 11:26 pm
I was in Armenia during the demonstrations and remember the police arresting a man for throwing an empty, plastic water bottle at them. The charge — instigating ‘coup like’ activities. What an outrage!
Comment by Jeff Dunaway — 4/14/2006 @ 2:59 am
It’s true…I was just talking to a friend in the street now about Armenia and he said - “yea but isnt Armenia really backwards anyway??”
It’s hard to argue back after things like this?
Comment by Harmick — 4/14/2006 @ 3:06 am
Police anywhere would arrest anyone throwing anything at them. You don’t throw things at the police in a peaceful demonstration. That said, the police hurt a lot of people who were in fact peaceful, and that’s an outrage.
Comment by Hamo — 4/14/2006 @ 11:03 pm
Hamo, you must be talking about police states like the United States, Syria or some other country like that.
In most normal countries police are not brutal and most of them don’t even carry guns (which, incidentally, is the case with Armenia).
Comment by nazarian — 4/17/2006 @ 7:18 pm
Hamo, do police usually beat journalists and ambush people, including pensioners, who are dispersing as the guys at cilicia.com blogged about?
Two friends from RFE/RL had to run for their lives and hide out for 3 hours in a nearby house knowing that their journalist passes wouldn’t spare them from being beaten.
Interestingly, a senior member of the Armenian Assembly of Armenia (AAA) also had to run for her life and requested that that the AAA in US issue a strong criticism of what happened.
However, they chose not to — as usual. Probably had business interests here they wanted to protect.
Comment by Onnik Krikorian — 4/18/2006 @ 11:17 am
I am not arguing that the police should not have arrested the man. However, arresting him for ‘instigating coup like activities’ is a bit absurd.
Comment by Jeff Dunaway — 4/19/2006 @ 6:19 am
Agreed, Jeff, that the charge is absurd. (Onnik, must you always miss the point?)
Comment by Hamo — 4/20/2006 @ 10:52 am
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