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    PUPILS OF SPECIAL SCHOOL STAGE PROTEST ACTION

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    [05:19 pm] 01 December, 2008

    The pupils of Yerevan's special school N9 staged a silent protest
    action in front of the President's residence on December 1. The
    children were accompanied by their parents. The protesters refused
    to utter a word. Chairman of the "Community and Right" NGO, Advocate
    Samvel Lazarian presented their demands and concerns. "The government
    doesn't allow them to speak up!" he said.

    Note that under a government decision the school of hard hearing
    children must unite with special school N15 for deaf and mute. The
    parents say their children have an ability to speak, they simply
    have hearing problems and if the schools are united they will have
    to use gestures.

    "These children cannot get adapted to the new surrounding. They will
    feel depressed in the new atmosphere," said Samvel Lazarian.

    Over 117 children from different Armenian marzes, as well as from
    Karabakh, Georgia, Javakhk and Russia, attend School N9.

    The demonstrators were promised to be given a chance to pose their
    demands during an upcoming meeting with the deputy Minister of
    Education and Science.

    "We hope that the problem will be addressed otherwise the parents
    will go on a termless strike," ensured Samvel Lazarian.
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