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HUNGER STRIKERS COME TO GOVERNMENT AFTER BANISHMENT FROM YERABLUR

Politics


The liberation soldiers who had declared a hunger strike yesterday at Erablur were in front of the Government building a short while ago. They came and joined the wives of the political prisoners. They had given a warning to declare a hunger strike with the following demands-not give up any piece of land, recognize Artsakh as an inseparable part of Armenia, release the political prisoners and end political persecutions at once. They weren’t able to go on a hunger strike last night at Yerablur because they were moved out by red-capped police officers under the condition that they would return in the morning. The officers had taken their items, including the tents. As one of the strikers Vardan Khachatryan told “A1+”, in the morning, two police officers approached the strikers and one of them said that the chiefs had told them to prohibit a hunger strike in Yerablur because it is a holy place. After 20 minutes, officers from the Malatia-Sebastia police division came and informed that the head of the division wants to see the hunger strikers.

According to Khachatryan, he refused to go to the division despite the fact that member of the NA “Heritage” faction Anahit Bakhshyan had advised him to go. Only two of the hunger strikers went to the police division where they spoke freely, without any physical abuse. Khachatryan said that after that, the police officers gave them the tents back and told them to leave Yerablur because the authorities have fixed them as hunger strikers.

One of the strikers Meruzhan Harutyunyan, who had been in the police division, told “A1+” that deputy head of the division asked to leave. “There were four calls in our presence and you could feel that the chiefs were forcing them to do something,” he added. \

The liberation fighters on strike today will make a political statement and hold a press conference. Let us recall that the liberation fighters on a three-day hunger strike are Meruzhan Harutyunyan (Vanadzor), Hrach Aloyan (Aparan), Vardan Yeritsyan (Yerevan), Suren Martirosyan (Echmiadzin), Levon Margaryan (Armavir), Vardan Malkhasyan (Ijevan), Armen Manukyan (Baghramian region), Garik Begjanyan (Alaverdi) and Armen Badochyan (Yerevan).