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    Freedom Square March 2, 2003 - Raffi Hovannisian: `I invite Serzh
    Sargsyan to show up and give an accounting to the people'
    Hrant Gadarigian

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/24050/freedom-square-march-2-2003-%E2%80%93-raffi-hovannisian-%E2%80%9Ci-invite-serzh-sargsyan-to-show-up-and-give-an-accounting-to-the-people%E2%80%9D.html
    19:05, March 2, 2013

    Jirayr Sefilyan, Andreas Ghoukasyan and Nikol Pashinyan Address
    Thousands Calling for Serzh Sargsyan to Resign

    Freedom Square in Yerevan was overflowing with people at today's rally
    in support of Raffi Hovannisian and his ongoing struggle to reject the
    official vote results of the February 18 presidential election.

    Speakers included Jirayr Sefilyan and Nikol Pashinyan, Andreas
    Ghoukasyan and Zarouhie Postanjyan.

    Raffi Hovannisian invited Serzh Sargsyan to Freedom Square on March 5
    and to face the people who had voted him out of office.

    Hovannisian called on Serzh Sargsyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
    and Yerevan Mayor Taron Karapetyan to submit their resignations
    publicly for the lies and fraud they have perpetrated during their
    terms of office.

    He called on them to display their morality and Christian spirit to
    give an accounting to the people for the error of their ways.

    Hovannisian said he would consult with his lawyers and decide whether
    or not to petition the Central Electoral Commission to declare the
    February 18 election null and void.

    He asked the crowd when the next rally should be held, March 5 or
    March 8. The people answered March 8; the day when they demand to see
    Serzh Sargsyan at Freedom Square and account for his misdeeds in front
    of the people.

    Jirayr Sefilyan told the crowd that a real opportunity had arisen to
    `build the Armenia of our dreams.' He warned the crowd that the past
    mistakes of the opposition must not be repeated.

    Sefilyan, an Artsakh military commander, said that the regime's ploy
    to use `national security' as a pretext to halt the current unfolding
    struggle will no longer be swallowed.

    `We cannot wait another five years,' declared Sefilyan. `In 2008, the
    regime succeeded in dividing the people. This time we are united as
    one, Armenia, Artsakh and the diaspora.'

    Sefilyan said that no of the leaders of the past who betrayed the will
    of the people would be allowed on the platform at Freedom Square.

    Andreas Ghoukasyan, the presidential candidate who went on hunger
    strike, gave a fiery speech lambasting the current regime. He called
    for unity of purpose as well.

    `Today, 10 million Armenians around the world are watching what
    happens in Freedom Square to see if the people are ready to take the
    struggle for freedom and justice till the end,' said Ghoukasyan.

    He then asked the crowd, `Are you ready?' To which the crowd
    thunderously responded, `Yes'

    Ghoukasyan said that the people must demand the resignation of all
    ruling Republican Party officials from regional and municipal posts.

    He also called for the people to organize and proposed the formation
    of citizens' council to represent the people's will parallel to
    existing government structures.

    As Nikol Pashinyan, the firebrand political activist, approached the
    microphone he was welcomed with chants of `Nikol, Nikol'

    He noted that on March 1, 2008, the Kocharian/Sargsyan clique occupied
    Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, with tanks and the army.

    Pashinyan said that today, the people have launched a struggle to
    build a new Armenia on behalf of those who died five years ago.

    He said that the people have united in a sacred cause and that the
    regime's attempt to pit one region against the other is doomed to
    failure.

    `Our struggle is for the unity of all Armenians, that the rule of law
    covers each and every citizen of the country. The hour of unity,
    brotherhood and victory is upon us,' declared Pashinyan.

    Pashinyan said the goal of the people and the pan-national struggle
    embodied by Raffi Hovannisian, the elected president of the people, is
    a simple one -irreversible victory.

    `Victory of nothing,' exclaimed Pashinyan.

    He proposed that on April 9, inauguration day, the people fill
    Republic Square and conduct a popular inauguration of Raffi
    Hovannisian as the next president of Armenia.

    Pashinyan said that faced with such an outpouring of the people's
    will, Serzh Sargsyan will be forced to admit defeat and that he isn't
    the choice of the people.

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