{"id":279375,"date":"2017-03-02T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=279375"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:55:32","slug":"victims-of-2008-deadly-post-election-clashes-commemorated-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/03\/02\/victims-of-2008-deadly-post-election-clashes-commemorated-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Victims of 2008 Deadly Post-Election Clashes Commemorated in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the ninth anniversary of <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/01\/the-victims-of-march-1-2008.html\">March 1, 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, opposition Armenian National Congress party held a rally on Yerevan&#8217;s Freedom Square to commemorate the victims of the deadly post-election clashes. The demonstrators then proceeded to march toward the Alexander Myasnikyan statue near which the bloody events had taken place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bq-3aIFg8Iw?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279341\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279343\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279342\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279344\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279346\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279345\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/march1ert-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>On March 1st, 2008, early in the morning, Armenian riot police and military forces were called in to disperse the mass protests against electoral fraud by supporters of unsuccessful presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan. They used excessive force and violence to disperse a peaceful opposition camp site in Freedom Square. The clashes left 10 people dead and many more wounded on the streets of central Yerevan. To date, relevant criminal proceedings have not been completed, no one has been convicted or charged with the murders.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 1st, 2008, early in the morning, Armenian riot police and military forces were called in to disperse the mass protests against electoral fraud by supporters&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984,52,66030],"tags":[12179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}