18:18 / 10/20/2009
“We want to warn everyone – from the authorities to the local criminal leaders – that we will not give up our struggle for national dignity,” Alek Yenigomshyan, member of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and of the Miatsum (Unity) initiative, told reporters.
The statement was intended for those putting obstacles to the signature-gathering campaign against the Armenian-Turkish protocols and Madrid Principles.
The Miatsum initiative member Armen Yeghyan said that the incident in the Nor-Nork community of Yerevan clearly demonstrated policemen’s “collaboration” with the local criminal elements.
The film director Tigran Khzmalyan pointed out that Armenia’s special services are obviously persecuting “active citizens,” including students and Karabakh war veterans. In behalf of the Committee in Defense of Political Prisoners and Victims of Political Repressions, Khzmalyan stressed that all those subjected to repressions for pronouncing against the Armenian-Turkish protocols will be declared political prisoners.