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    ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PROTESTERS CALL FOR PRESIDENT'S REMOVAL

    Agence France Presse
    Aug 1 2008
    France

    YEREVAN (AFP) -- Several thousand opposition supporters rallied Friday
    in the Armenian capital Yerevan demanding President Serzh Sarkisian's
    removal and early elections.

    Up to 5,000 protesters were seen in the centre of Yerevan by an
    AFP reporter.

    "We are demanding the removal of the president and new parliamentary
    and presidential elections," former president and opposition leader
    Levon Ter-Petrosian told the crowd.

    Ter-Petrosian called another protest for September 5.

    Opposition supporters have regularly rallied in Yerevan since Sarkisian
    was elected in a February poll marred by post-election violence that
    left 10 dead.

    The opposition, which accuses Sarkisian of rigging the election,
    protested for 11 days after the vote before being violently dispersed
    by riot police.

    A mountainous country of about three million people, Armenia has
    experienced repeated political violence since gaining its independence
    with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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