Thursday, 15 April 2004

ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER EMERGES FROM HIDING

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By empty (4/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

National Accord Party (AMK) Chairman Artashes Geghamian, who went into hiding after police resorted to violence early on 13 April to disperse opposition demonstrators in Yerevan , convened a news conference at the parliament building on 14 April, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. He told RFE/RL that police who searched AMK headquarters and his apartment the previous day confiscated documents and even family photographs. Geghamian, together with two leading members of the opposition Artarutiun alliance, Albert Bazeyan and Viktor Dallakian, said the opposition will continue to campaign by constitutional means for the resignation of the present Armenian leadership.
National Accord Party (AMK) Chairman Artashes Geghamian, who went into hiding after police resorted to violence early on 13 April to disperse opposition demonstrators in Yerevan , convened a news conference at the parliament building on 14 April, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. He told RFE/RL that police who searched AMK headquarters and his apartment the previous day confiscated documents and even family photographs. Geghamian, together with two leading members of the opposition Artarutiun alliance, Albert Bazeyan and Viktor Dallakian, said the opposition will continue to campaign by constitutional means for the resignation of the present Armenian leadership. Another Artarutiun activist, parliament deputy Shavarsh Kocharian (no relation to President Robert Kocharian), said the opposition will convene a further mass demonstration in Yerevan on 16 April. (RFE/RL)
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