“10 POLICEMEN BEAT A YOUNG MAN”
Support A1+!Early in the morning the beaten demonstrators as well as other citizens gathered in front of the French Embassy in Yerevan. Other citizens who had organized a march also joined them. The demonstrators will stay here until 15.00 p.m., and then they will hold a rally.
“Who assaults on peaceful demonstrators? Only Turks”, stated a demonstrator. One of the witnesses in the Liberty Square, Varduhi from Haghtanak village told that the police fell on them in the Liberty Square and “some time latter I witnessed how three policemen with truncheons beat a woman in the Mashtots Avenue”. As the woman stated we demanded Turkey to recognize the genocide but “the police implements a genocide by Kocharyan’s order”.
“Ten policemen beat a young man and threw him away, maybe he died”, told another witness.
“Without warning they assaulted on us, first the police then the soldiers, it seemed to me that they were the military servants from Karabakh. I read it on their uniform. Then they beat women and children severely without saving anyone”, told another witness Mkrtich Abrahamyan who participated in the march to the French Embassy. “If we do not win, we will leave this country”, he said.
At the moment near the French Embassy the demonstrators are crying out “Freedom”, “Levon President”.
