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REGIME TRYING TO INTIMIDATE YOUNG CIVIL ACTIVISTS INTO SILENCE - SARDARAPAT
tert.am
23.07.12
As a last resort to maintain power, the authorities are now attempting
to intimidate young civil activists by forcing them into silence and
subjecting them to criminal liability, Sardarapat Movement has said
in a statement.
The group expresses concerns that by persecuting and jailing the
opposition activists, the ruling regime is trying to take revenge
upon them.
"Considering the civil society developing around the active young
generation the most serious threat to its existence, the regime chooses
violence as the last resort to its existence and launches attack,"
they say.
Referring to the deadly incident in Harsnaqar (the restaurant owned by
businessman MP Ruben Hayrapetyan, where military doctor Vahe Avetyan
was beaten to death by security guards last month), they claim that the
authorities are in this way openly throwing a gauntlet to the public.
"Blatantly violating the law and lawfulness, the regime is trying to
settle accounts with, and menacingly threaten and silence the youth
that that stands at the core of civil activeness.
Feeling its agony, the criminal-oligarchic regime has fallen into a
fever of survival, committing yet another inevitable error, because it
deals with a civil society that is not to be intimidated by detention,"
the activists say, adding that the authorities' policies in relation
to oppositionists will make their struggle more resolute.
"So it is our duty to make a full use of this opportunity, making yet
another step towards rebuilding the Armenian statehood and contributing
to the rebirth of the Motherland, by liberating the young [activists]
convicted wrongly. "
tert.am
23.07.12
As a last resort to maintain power, the authorities are now attempting
to intimidate young civil activists by forcing them into silence and
subjecting them to criminal liability, Sardarapat Movement has said
in a statement.
The group expresses concerns that by persecuting and jailing the
opposition activists, the ruling regime is trying to take revenge
upon them.
"Considering the civil society developing around the active young
generation the most serious threat to its existence, the regime chooses
violence as the last resort to its existence and launches attack,"
they say.
Referring to the deadly incident in Harsnaqar (the restaurant owned by
businessman MP Ruben Hayrapetyan, where military doctor Vahe Avetyan
was beaten to death by security guards last month), they claim that the
authorities are in this way openly throwing a gauntlet to the public.
"Blatantly violating the law and lawfulness, the regime is trying to
settle accounts with, and menacingly threaten and silence the youth
that that stands at the core of civil activeness.
Feeling its agony, the criminal-oligarchic regime has fallen into a
fever of survival, committing yet another inevitable error, because it
deals with a civil society that is not to be intimidated by detention,"
the activists say, adding that the authorities' policies in relation
to oppositionists will make their struggle more resolute.
"So it is our duty to make a full use of this opportunity, making yet
another step towards rebuilding the Armenian statehood and contributing
to the rebirth of the Motherland, by liberating the young [activists]
convicted wrongly. "