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Published on February 18, 2008
MAN CHARGED IN PROBE OF TER-PETROSIAN RALLY VIOLENCE
- Prosecutors said on Monday that they have launched criminal proceedings against one of the government loyalists who assaulted a bodyguard and supporters of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian during a campaign rally in southern Armenia. The move ran counter to the initial official version of the most serious instance of violence registered during the presidential election campaign. A spokeswoman for Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian said a resident of Artashat, Armen Mirzoyan, hurled stones at participants of the February 6 rally in the town 30 kilometers south of Yerevan and beat up the Ter-Petrosian bodyguard. She said Mirzoyan was formally charged on Saturday with disrupting public order and showing “disrespect towards the public” by violent means. The rally nearly descended into chaos as a group of aggressive youths tried to pick fights with Ter-Petrosian loyalists and threw stones and other objects at them. According to eyewitnesses, among them two RFE/RL correspondents, the violence began after supporters of the opposition presidential candidate led away a female heckler from the crowd. The thugs went on to attack the deputy chief of Ter-Petrosian’s security service. Both the Armenian police and the Office of the Prosecutor-General have said that Ter-Petrosian himself provoked the violence with his derogatory attacks on Hovik Abrahamian, the deputy prime minister and Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian’s campaign manager who holds sway in Artashat. The law-enforcement bodies also dismissed as “slander” reports that the crowd was pelted with stones. They changed the official version of events and brought the criminal case against the government loyalist two days after those reports were effectively confirmed by observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In a separate statement on Monday, Hovsepian said law-enforcement authorities will counter any attempts to falsify the Tuesday’s election. “Our law-enforcement system has the determination, the will and the ability to fight against possible vote falsifications, violations of law aimed at disrupting the electoral process, protecting public order and constitutional order,” he said. Hovsepian also said that a special anti-fraud task force formed by him last month has looked into all reports of election-related violations coming from opposition candidates and media. He claimed last week that those reports are “infested with lies.” (Photolur photo)
- By Emil Danielyan
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Today in Armenian history- 1853 Birth of Christapor Kara Murza (composer and conductor) in Gharazubazar (Crimea, Ukraine) . He died in 1902.
- 1856 After the Crimean War, Sultan Abdul Mejid of Turkey signed an Edict on the security of life for the non-Muslim peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This Proclamation, the goal of which was to prevent possible Russian intervention, did not change the Armenians' situation at all.
- 1856 Sultan Abdul Megid publishes the "Hatti Hoomayoon" reform plan as the second statement of the "Tanzimat". No reforms took place.
- 1877 Birth of academician and author, Derenik Demirtjian. He died in 1956.
- 1879 Creation of the "Cilician Society" benevolent organization. Its purpose was the spread of national education in Cilicia. The founders were Minas Sheraz, Karapet Karakyan, Hrant Asatoor, Hakob Nazaryan, and others.
- 1918 Andranik's small force arrives in Erzroom (Western Armenia). It could not repel the attack of the 25 000-strong Turkish Army. It fought a rear-guard action and managed to save many refugees by bringing them to the Caucasus.
- 1920 Foundation of the Armenian Government Red Cross.
- 1921 Revolt against the Bolshevik government in Armenia.
- 1921 The anti-Bolshevik February Rebellion in Armenia ended in victory for the people.
- 1963 Death of Catholicos Zareh the First of the Cilician See.
- 1977 The monument of Commander Gai (Haik Bjshkiants) is inaugurated in Yerevan.
- 1994 Artsakh forces regain control of the Omar Pass having lost it three months earlier.
- 1994 The Moscow Communique is issued following negotiations among the defense ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Artsakh.
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