ARF activists are indignant
Stalwarts of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun who started a hunger-strike outside the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 15 started the new day with cleaning the vicinity and read ARF's newspaper "Yerkir."
In reply to A1+'s question whether some of the 24 hunger-strikers spent the night at home, ARF Spokesman Areg Savgulian said: "It is a blatant lie. All strikers stayed here. In the morning they were simply replaced by new strikers."
Areg Savgulian says he is unaware of the international norms of a hunger-strike but the Party is guided by the principle of replacing strikers every 48 hours.
"Our ancestors took the path of migration in the years of famine and bloodshed. Cannot we stay in the rain for a day or two? My grandfather had 8 brothers and two sisters. Only two of them survived. How can we ignore the fact? No one must neglect Western Armenians," striker Gabriel Avetisian told A1+.
Meanwhile, Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharian and Spokesman for the Armenian President Samvel Farmanian left the building of the Foreign Ministry. The latter approached Areg Sargsian and asked the strikers to vacate the area.
Remind that another 50 ARF activists continue their sit-in near the government building.
The Party has been able to collect 25 000 signatures saying no to the two-side Protocols between Armenia and Turkey.
