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RAFFI HOVANNISIAN'S RALLY OVER IN ARMENIA'S CAPITAL(UPDATED, LIVE)
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/02/28/azatutyun/
17:22 ~U 28.02.13
Rally of Armenia's Heritage party's leader Raffi Hovannisian kicked
off in Yerevan Liberty Square. The rally in the capital follows
Hovannisian's provincial tour during the past three days during which
he met with the residents of towns of Armenia's provinces.
On February 24 Raffi Hovannisian was in Aragatsotn, Lori and Shirak
provinces, on February 26 in Ararat, Armavir and Vayots Dzor.
Yesterday he was in Syunik and today in Kotayk.
Raffi Hovannisian is in the square.
The speeches continue in the Liberty square. Deputy leader of the
Heritage party Armen Martirosyan welcomed the gathered. The
representative of the youth wing of Armenia's People's party Narek
Varazdatyan delivered a speech saying that this fight is an
ideological, "we have united over our united idea."
Varazdatyan said the emigration statistics shows that the young people
are emigrating not tying their future with Armenia. The student said
that the time has come for "Come Home" program to turn into "Stay at
home" program.
He informed that students have begun strikes in Gyumri and Vanadzor.
Armenian youth union of the Heritage party addressed a statement to
the Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, calling on him to avoid possible
orders of using the army against people. Presenting the statement,
member of the union Gevorg Karapetyan said their 'barevolution's wave
is becoming great and urged to avoid implementing the orders of the
authorities.
Karapetyan said on February 18 the people won by electing their
president Raffi Hovannisian and they are angry that vote of the people
has been rigged again.
"We will fight till the liberation of the people's will. Despite the
committed crime we have fought within the limits of the Constitution.
Tomorrow this very people and their devoted sons will defend the
homeland," Karapetyan said.
The composer Ruben Hakhverdyan said that Armenia's President Serzh
Sargsyan is "a person from an Azerbaijani province that has come to be
our leader.
"If your mother's pension were 30,000 drams (about $75) a month, would
you be satisfied, Mr president?" he said.
Anahit Hovhannisyan, a member of the all-Armenian youth and student
movement, stated that the students are now standing up "for justice,
freedom, new Armenia."
"We are standing up until the national movement ends," she said.
Armenia's president is Raffi Hovannisian, and the students are not
going to put up with any other, she said.
Anahit Bakhshyan, a Heritage party member, mentioned political murders
on the "threshold of the third republic" committed under three
presidents of Armenia, with none of them solved until now.
She recalled the ten deaths of March 1, 2008.
"We still remember the murders committed by the army and police on
March 1," Ms Bakhshyan said.
She also recalled Vahe Avetyan's murder last year. Although Armenia's
authorities seem to have nothing in common with that crime, the fact
is that "the military doctor was murdered by an oligarchic MPs'
bodyguards only for speaking ironically of the gang."
"That crime was as political as the March 1 crime," she said.
Ms Bakhshyan also recalled the terrorist act in Armenia's parliament
on October 27, 1999.
"It is clear who benefited from that heinous crime," she said. During
the trial the perpetrators said the crime had been planned, while
Serzh Sargsyan, who was Head of Armenia's National Security Service,
never reported anything.
Ms Bakhshyan hopes that the crimes will be solved under Raffi Hovannisian.
"If the incumbent authorities turn out innocent, I, if alive, will
apologize to them for the charges," she said.
Heritage party Chairman Raffi Hovannisian addressed the people and
asked them to commemorate the victims of Armenians pogroms in Sumgait,
Azerbaijan, in 1988.
"Twenty-five years ago, in Sumgait, people were killed only because
they were Armenians," he said.
"Today, who dares raise his hand against an Armenian man, citizen or
soldiers, will be punished by our citizens at once," he said.
"No more losses any," he added. Mr Hovannisian promises better
education, healthcare and a strong and just army. Art will be
affordable to the people, and emigration will be done away with in
five years.
Mr Hovannisian welcomed the "stronger and progressive" young people
that joined the movement toward victory.
He demands that Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan must resign from
the post Chairman of the Governing Council of Yerevan State
University. From April 9, Serzh Sargsyan will not be Armenia's
president any longer.
Mr Hovannisian said that his public meetings in Armenia's regions
realize the Armenian people's demand that all the election riggers -
heads of village communities and governors - apologize to the people
and resign.
"I am not going to tolerate those pressuring an Armenian man, head of
a family, teacher, government official or soldier," he said.
He also thanked social network users for activity, and invited them to
Freedom Square.
Mr Hovannisian plans to agree on his political agenda with the people
in Freedom Square.
"We need to bring power back - from village to village, from city to
city, as far as the capital," he said.
Mr Hovannisian asked for the people's consent to applying to Armenia's
constitutional Court. Many of the participants in the rally raised
their hands, but many others did not. He proposed approving a final
decision on March 2.
With respect to a proposal for Armenia's new cabinet by Nikol
Pashinyan, a member of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress
(ANC), Mr Hovannisian said that others believe it would be an untimely
step now.
Mr Hovannisian invites the people to visit Freedom Square on March1,
with flowers. He intends to lay a wreath at the monument to Alexander
Myasnikyan to commemorate the victims of the tragic events in
Armenia's capital on March 1, 2008.
He said that a religious service in commemoration of the victims is to
take place at Surb Sargis church at 4:30pm, March 1, 2013.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/02/28/azatutyun/
17:22 ~U 28.02.13
Rally of Armenia's Heritage party's leader Raffi Hovannisian kicked
off in Yerevan Liberty Square. The rally in the capital follows
Hovannisian's provincial tour during the past three days during which
he met with the residents of towns of Armenia's provinces.
On February 24 Raffi Hovannisian was in Aragatsotn, Lori and Shirak
provinces, on February 26 in Ararat, Armavir and Vayots Dzor.
Yesterday he was in Syunik and today in Kotayk.
Raffi Hovannisian is in the square.
The speeches continue in the Liberty square. Deputy leader of the
Heritage party Armen Martirosyan welcomed the gathered. The
representative of the youth wing of Armenia's People's party Narek
Varazdatyan delivered a speech saying that this fight is an
ideological, "we have united over our united idea."
Varazdatyan said the emigration statistics shows that the young people
are emigrating not tying their future with Armenia. The student said
that the time has come for "Come Home" program to turn into "Stay at
home" program.
He informed that students have begun strikes in Gyumri and Vanadzor.
Armenian youth union of the Heritage party addressed a statement to
the Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, calling on him to avoid possible
orders of using the army against people. Presenting the statement,
member of the union Gevorg Karapetyan said their 'barevolution's wave
is becoming great and urged to avoid implementing the orders of the
authorities.
Karapetyan said on February 18 the people won by electing their
president Raffi Hovannisian and they are angry that vote of the people
has been rigged again.
"We will fight till the liberation of the people's will. Despite the
committed crime we have fought within the limits of the Constitution.
Tomorrow this very people and their devoted sons will defend the
homeland," Karapetyan said.
The composer Ruben Hakhverdyan said that Armenia's President Serzh
Sargsyan is "a person from an Azerbaijani province that has come to be
our leader.
"If your mother's pension were 30,000 drams (about $75) a month, would
you be satisfied, Mr president?" he said.
Anahit Hovhannisyan, a member of the all-Armenian youth and student
movement, stated that the students are now standing up "for justice,
freedom, new Armenia."
"We are standing up until the national movement ends," she said.
Armenia's president is Raffi Hovannisian, and the students are not
going to put up with any other, she said.
Anahit Bakhshyan, a Heritage party member, mentioned political murders
on the "threshold of the third republic" committed under three
presidents of Armenia, with none of them solved until now.
She recalled the ten deaths of March 1, 2008.
"We still remember the murders committed by the army and police on
March 1," Ms Bakhshyan said.
She also recalled Vahe Avetyan's murder last year. Although Armenia's
authorities seem to have nothing in common with that crime, the fact
is that "the military doctor was murdered by an oligarchic MPs'
bodyguards only for speaking ironically of the gang."
"That crime was as political as the March 1 crime," she said.
Ms Bakhshyan also recalled the terrorist act in Armenia's parliament
on October 27, 1999.
"It is clear who benefited from that heinous crime," she said. During
the trial the perpetrators said the crime had been planned, while
Serzh Sargsyan, who was Head of Armenia's National Security Service,
never reported anything.
Ms Bakhshyan hopes that the crimes will be solved under Raffi Hovannisian.
"If the incumbent authorities turn out innocent, I, if alive, will
apologize to them for the charges," she said.
Heritage party Chairman Raffi Hovannisian addressed the people and
asked them to commemorate the victims of Armenians pogroms in Sumgait,
Azerbaijan, in 1988.
"Twenty-five years ago, in Sumgait, people were killed only because
they were Armenians," he said.
"Today, who dares raise his hand against an Armenian man, citizen or
soldiers, will be punished by our citizens at once," he said.
"No more losses any," he added. Mr Hovannisian promises better
education, healthcare and a strong and just army. Art will be
affordable to the people, and emigration will be done away with in
five years.
Mr Hovannisian welcomed the "stronger and progressive" young people
that joined the movement toward victory.
He demands that Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan must resign from
the post Chairman of the Governing Council of Yerevan State
University. From April 9, Serzh Sargsyan will not be Armenia's
president any longer.
Mr Hovannisian said that his public meetings in Armenia's regions
realize the Armenian people's demand that all the election riggers -
heads of village communities and governors - apologize to the people
and resign.
"I am not going to tolerate those pressuring an Armenian man, head of
a family, teacher, government official or soldier," he said.
He also thanked social network users for activity, and invited them to
Freedom Square.
Mr Hovannisian plans to agree on his political agenda with the people
in Freedom Square.
"We need to bring power back - from village to village, from city to
city, as far as the capital," he said.
Mr Hovannisian asked for the people's consent to applying to Armenia's
constitutional Court. Many of the participants in the rally raised
their hands, but many others did not. He proposed approving a final
decision on March 2.
With respect to a proposal for Armenia's new cabinet by Nikol
Pashinyan, a member of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress
(ANC), Mr Hovannisian said that others believe it would be an untimely
step now.
Mr Hovannisian invites the people to visit Freedom Square on March1,
with flowers. He intends to lay a wreath at the monument to Alexander
Myasnikyan to commemorate the victims of the tragic events in
Armenia's capital on March 1, 2008.
He said that a religious service in commemoration of the victims is to
take place at Surb Sargis church at 4:30pm, March 1, 2013.