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    "One dead" after police break up protest in Armenia

    EuroNews, France
    March 1 2008

    At least one person has reportedly died after police in the Armenian
    capital broke up opposition protests.

    Riot police moved into Yerevan's Freedom Square in the early hours
    and used truncheons to get rid of demonstrators, who have been in
    situ for 10 days after a presidential election they claim was rigged.

    Dozens of people were injured in the dispersal.

    Protesters then moved on to in front of the French embassy.

    Several thousand opposition supporters have protested daily in the
    square since Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan was elected.

    Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan has led the protests.

    He also ran in the election, which Western observers called broadly
    fair.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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