Raffi Hovannisian’s rally over in Armenia's capital(updated, live)
Rally of Armenia’s Heritage party’s leader Raffi Hovannisian kicked off in Yerevan Liberty Square. The rally in the capital follows Hovannisian's provincial tour during the past three days during which he met with the residents of towns of Armenia’s provinces.
On February 24 Raffi Hovannisian was in Aragatsotn, Lori and Shirak provinces, on February 26 in Ararat, Armavir and Vayots Dzor. Yesterday he was in Syunik and today in Kotayk.
Raffi Hovannisian is in the square.
The speeches continue in the Liberty square. Deputy leader of the Heritage party Armen Martirosyan welcomed the gathered. The representative of the youth wing of Armenia’s People’s party Narek Varazdatyan delivered a speech saying that this fight is an ideological, “we have united over our united idea.”
Varazdatyan said the emigration statistics shows that the young people are emigrating not tying their future with Armenia. The student said that the time has come for “Come Home” program to turn into “Stay at home” program.
He informed that students have begun strikes in Gyumri and Vanadzor.
Armenian youth union of the Heritage party addressed a statement to the Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, calling on him to avoid possible orders of using the army against people. Presenting the statement, member of the union Gevorg Karapetyan said their ‘barevolution’s wave is becoming great and urged to avoid implementing the orders of the authorities.
Karapetyan said on February 18 the people won by electing their president Raffi Hovannisian and they are angry that vote of the people has been rigged again.
“We will fight till the liberation of the people’s will. Despite the committed crime we have fought within the limits of the Constitution. Tomorrow this very people and their devoted sons will defend the homeland,” Karapetyan said.
The composer Ruben Hakhverdyan said that Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan is “a person from an Azerbaijani province that has come to be our leader.
“If your mother’s pension were 30,000 drams (about $75) a month, would you be satisfied, Mr president?” he said.
Anahit Hovhannisyan, a member of the all-Armenian youth and student movement, stated that the students are now standing up “for justice, freedom, new Armenia.”
“We are standing up until the national movement ends,” she said. Armenia’s president is Raffi Hovannisian, and the students are not going to put up with any other, she said.
Anahit Bakhshyan, a Heritage party member, mentioned political murders on the “threshold of the third republic” committed under three presidents of Armenia, with none of them solved until now.
She recalled the ten deaths of March 1, 2008.
“We still remember the murders committed by the army and police on March 1,” Ms Bakhshyan said.
She also recalled Vahe Avetyan’s murder last year. Although Armenia’s authorities seem to have nothing in common with that crime, the fact is that “the military doctor was murdered by an oligarchic MPs’ bodyguards only for speaking ironically of the gang.”
“That crime was as political as the March 1 crime,” she said.
Ms Bakhshyan also recalled the terrorist act in Armenia’s parliament on October 27, 1999.
"It is clear who benefited from that heinous crime,” she said. During the trial the perpetrators said the crime had been planned, while Serzh Sargsyan, who was Head of Armenia’s National Security Service, never reported anything.
Ms Bakhshyan hopes that the crimes will be solved under Raffi Hovannisian.
“If the incumbent authorities turn out innocent, I, if alive, will apologize to them for the charges,” she said.
Heritage party Chairman Raffi Hovannisian addressed the people and asked them to commemorate the victims of Armenians pogroms in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, in 1988.
“Twenty-five years ago, in Sumgait, people were killed only because they were Armenians,” he said.
“Today, who dares raise his hand against an Armenian man, citizen or soldiers, will be punished by our citizens at once,” he said.
“No more losses any,” he added.
Mr Hovannisian welcomed the “stronger and progressive” young people that joined the movement toward victory.
He demands that Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan must resign from the post Chairman of the Governing Council of Yerevan State University. From April 9, Serzh Sargsyan will not be Armenia’s president any longer.
Mr Hovannisian said that his public meetings in Armenia’s regions realize the Armenian people’s demand that all the election riggers – heads of village communities and governors – apologize to the people and resign.
“I am not going to tolerate those pressuring an Armenian man, head of a family, teacher, government official or soldier,” he said.
He also thanked social network users for activity, and invited them to Freedom Square.
Mr Hovannisian plans to agree on his political agenda with the people in Freedom Square.
“We need to bring power back – from village to village, from city to city, as far as the capital,” he said.
Mr Hovannisian asked for the people’s consent to applying to Armenia’s constitutional Court. Many of the participants in the rally raised their hands, but many others did not. He proposed approving a final decision on March 2.
With respect to a proposal for Armenia’s new cabinet by Nikol Pashinyan, a member of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC), Mr Hovannisian said that others believe it would be an untimely step now.
Mr Hovannisian invites the people to visit Freedom Square on March1, with flowers. He intends to lay a wreath at the monument to Alexander Myasnikyan to commemorate the victims of the tragic events in Armenia’s capital on March 1, 2008.
He said that a religious service in commemoration of the victims is to take place at Surb Sargis church at 4:30pm, March 1, 2013.
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