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    WHERE WERE YOU, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER?

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    [02:25 pm] 01 March, 2008

    At 10.30 a.m. people who were made out of the Liberty Square at dawn,
    relatives of detained and missing people, as well as ordinary citizens,
    who did not participate in the strike but were beaten by special police
    groups, gathered in front of the French Embassy in Yerevan. Here,
    the police was standing in rows. The number of demonstrators was
    growing and they were exclaiming "Levon President", "Freedom",
    "Fight to the end", "Serge, leave".

    No employee from the Embassy has met the demonstrators yet. New
    groups of citizens joined the demonstrators, who had organized a
    march through North Avenue. Policemen in shields, helmets and with
    truncheons arrived and wanted to surround the demonstrators, but the
    latter continued crying out "Armenians join". The traffic is stopped
    on Grigor Lusavorich Street, people get off the transport and join the
    demonstrators, and drivers express their sympathy toward demonstrators.

    Two trolleybuses have blocked the road and the demonstrators covered
    them with posters written "We will win". A garbage lorry brought and
    poured out as garbage what was left in the Liberty Square - tents,
    bloody mattresses, child' shoes, food etc. After this incidents the
    demonstrators could hardly keep themselves not to assault on the
    policemen and cried out "Arthur, traitor".

    Among the demonstrators in front of the Embassy, you could see
    the NA Deputy from the "Heritage" party Anahit Bakhshyan and the
    RA Ombudsman. People were asking the Ombudsman where he was when
    the policemen assaulted on the people in the Liberty Square. "What
    happened in the Opera will continue here", warned the people.

    We should remind that 15.00 they will hold a rally in front of the
    French Embassy.
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