Epress.am News from Armenia
“We Are the Masters of Our Country” action group took the social networks Monday to call for Armenia’s citizens to gather at 10 am in various locations in downtown Yerevan – including the Freedom Square, the Republic Square, and the Mashtots Park – in support of the gunmen who seized a Yerevan police station early on Sunday, taking the personnel of the station hostage and calling for the release of the country’s political prisoners.
Epress.am reporters visited the locations mentioned above at the specified time only to find that they were empty. Finally, at Mashtots Park we came across 65-year-old Pavel Yedigaryan who told us that he understood the gunmen’s motives. These people, Yedigaryan insisted, were forced to resort to such a desperate measure as “the ruling regime has blocked off all other ways of struggle.”
The people’s unwillingness to go out into the streets, according to the 65-year-old citizen, was a consequence of them being convinced that they would no longer be able to change anything in the country. Nevertheless, Yedigaryan said he believed that “all the Armenian citizens, deep in their hearts, sympathize with these men.”