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  • March 1 Rally: ANC Leader Announces Two-Month Break In Street Protes

    MARCH 1 RALLY: ANC LEADER ANNOUNCES TWO-MONTH BREAK IN STREET PROTESTS

    POLITICS | 01.03.15 | 19:29
    http://armenianow.com/news/politics/61039/armenian_national_congress_rally_yerevan_liberty_s quare_march_1

    The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) will hold no
    rallies for at least two months, the opposition party's leader
    Levon Ter-Petrosyan told several thousand supporters who gathered in
    Yerevan's Liberty Square on Sunday afternoon.

    Ter-Petrosyan said the decision was based on the current reality in
    which, according to him, the ANC again remains alone in the opposition
    camp. He said that time is needed to assess the potential for further
    struggle by means of rallies.

    The ANC had planned to participate in a joint rally with Heritage
    and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) on February 20, but after the
    PAP effectively pulled out of the opposition coalition following a
    government crackdown earlier last month, the Ter-Petrosyan-led party
    decided to schedule its rally for March 1, which marks the seventh
    anniversary of the deadly 2008 post-election clashes.

    In explaining his decision to declare a pause in rallies, Ter-Petrosyan
    also said that the ANC did not want to obstruct in any way the
    organization and holding of events commemorating the centennial of
    the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. The main events are due to
    take place on April 24.

    After the rally, ANC supporters marched towards the Myasnikyan Statue,
    the scene of the most violent clashes between demonstrators and
    security forces on March 1-2, 2008. They laid flowers at the monument
    in memory of the 10 people who were killed in the unrest that night.

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