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    news.am, Armenia
    April 2 2011

    Silent protest in Yerevan's Liberty Square



    April 02, 2011 | 21:05

    On April 2, the Heritage party member Larisa Alaverdyan, ethnographer
    Hranush Haratyan and the scholar Anahit Tonoyan started a silent
    protest in Liberty Square in Yerevan. Determined not to utter a single
    word they refused to answer any of Armenian News-NEWS.am's questions.
    A certain Susanna Barkhudaryan, a Board member, Heritage party, said
    the reason for the protest is intellectuals' disagreement with the
    ways of dealing with existing problems.

    The participants will change one another from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
    every day. `They will remain silent during the action, tomorrow and
    the day after tomorrow - all the following days - whoever comes,'
    Barkhudaryan said.

    Stepan Safaryan, a member of the Heritage parliamentary faction, told
    Armenian News-NEWS.am he came to express his support to the
    protesters.

    As to whether the intellectuals' action is a follow-up to Raffi
    Hovhannisyan's hunger-strike, Safaryan said: `I would not like to say
    the action is a follow-up to Raffi Hovhannisyan's hunger-strike, but
    the party leader's action gave rise to a new form of protest.
    Intellectuals are protesting on their own behalf and on behalf of
    others. Everybody is aware that Raffi Hovhannisyan and these persons
    have far fewer problems than others. But, no matter how gravely
    people's right to protest is violated, the intellectuals had the
    courage to protest instead of the people that are not allowed to,'
    Safaryan said.

    Heritage party Chairman Raffi Hovhannisyan was on a hunger-strike
    March 14 to 30.




    From: A. Papazian
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