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HUNGER-STRIKERS FORCED OFF YERABLUR

Politics


The statements of the people striking in the Yerablur made the police and red heats lose their patience and exert pressure on the hunger-strikers today morning.


At about 9:00 a.m. the police of the Malatia-Sebastia commune chained the Yereblur and ordered the strikers to vacate the area. An hour later the police attacked the strikers and forced them off the place.


Presently, some 30 policemen are guarding the Yerablur. The strikers are grouped at the entrance where they intend to continue their hunger protest.


“We don't even doubt that the order to break up the strike has been issued by the authorities who again evince their intention to surrender the liberated territories,” Karabakh war veteran Merujan Harutyunyan said to A1+.


“The police do not conceal that they are exerting the authorities’ order. One of them has even whispered to me that they are obliged to obey their superiors otherwise they will be deprived of daily bread. The authorities’ steps testify to their mean intentions. They wouldn’t try to silence us if they really meant to keep the territories,” added Merujan Harutyunyan.


Note that no one has visited the hunger-strikers except the members of the Intelligentsia Forum Erwand Manaryan and Hrachya Matevosyan.