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08:33:59 Saturday, 01 March 2003 ( politics ) HRAYR TOVMASSYAN: 300 THOUSAND VOTES FALSIFIED Following president Kocharyan’s advice, lawyer Hrayr Tovmassyan equipped himself with pen and paper and embarked on counting. “2 million 290 thousand people in Armenia are eligible to vote. 30% of them left the country. It means hardly 1million 600 thousand of them were in Armenia at the time of voting. As a rule, even in highly developed countries, no more than 70 or 75 percent of population goes to vote. Let’s imagine that Armenia is indeed the most developed country of the world. Even then, no more than 1 million 200 thousand could participate in the election. Doesn’t it seems strange that Central Election Commission says 1million 500 thousand people voted on February 19? It is obvious that 300 thousand votes are falsified and is clear for whom”, he said. Mr. Tovmassyan is convinced that there is not a single polling station in Armenia where election irregularities didn’t take place. According to the evidence he possesses, in one of polling stations, a ballot box was stuffed with 1000 of falsified ballots at once and no clean ballots remained in that polling station by 16:00. 07:34:09 Saturday, 01 March 2003 ( politics ) LAWYER ASHOT SARGSSYAN SAYS 112 FACTS OF ELECTION IRREGULARITIES PRESENTED TO ELECTORAL COMMISSION ON TIME Today, before meeting with electorate, presidential candidate Stepan Demirchyan’s campaigners presented irrefutable evidence of the election illegalities taking place in the first round of the elections. Incumbent president Robert Kocharyan keeps insisting that Central Electoral Commission received only 50 complaints about the fraud committed during the first round. Lawyer Ashot Sargssyan, Stepan Demirchyan’s proxy, says he himself submitted 84 complaints about election irregularities to the commission on February 19. In his words many proxies failed in filing motions to the commission on time because they wern’t aware of the law, under which the deadline of complaints submission is 14:00 of the next day after voting. Ashot Sargssyan says, 112 motions were filed on time, however, the prosecution office keeps silence about this. The lawyer also reminded that Central Electoral Commission itself violated Electoral Code by announcing the second round before releasing final results of the first round vote. http://www.a1plus.am/eng/

Functioning Regime Has Got Down To Policy Of Mass Pursuit On February 26, when march past of peaceful people to the building of Academy was closed with barbed wire, a group of citizens were accidentally kept behind the barbed wire. They witness that nearly a hundred of Kocharian's staff members have come out to reside over the crowd of demonstrators consisting of several thousand people. They were maltreated and called "a group of miserable vagrants". It should be mentioned here, that Kocharian's team members are full of disgust towards the people, and they just do their best and even more to preserve the regime and their illegal privileges. And to reach it, they use national TV that is never independent and carry out mass pursuit. The arrests are executed without any operative work, the staff of the president represents lists of names, and the law-enforcement bodies realize isolation of the people included in the lists. Both civil servants and high-ranking officials are engaged in telling lies; moreover even the present president doesn't avoid telling lies publicly. Thus, he claims, "there have been violations both for the president, and for the opposition". He even afforded to declare that the opposition deputies had entered ballot station where turning off the light, had filled ballot boxes with false poll papers. It's at least ridiculous. R. Kocharian also put all the blame on the opposition, telling that he wouldn't realize the promises included in his pre-electoral program. "The reason is the level of political culture, which showed the opposition during the whole period of Publicity campaign. And after the elections, the country will spend its resources for several months, in order to return the state we were in before the beginning of the preaching campaign". He also declared: "During the meetings, they have made attempts and appealed people to realize shift of the authorities, constitutional order". In this way, he proves that the idea of constitutional order is equal to preservation of personal power and that he regards protesting against rigged elections and re-defining true results of the elections as anti-constitutional. At the same time he declared, that slaughter would not stop him either: "Who would bear responsibility if there were slaughter?" The president also displayed that he doesn't take into consideration opinion of the international community either, as he doesn't respond to agitated remarks of head of the OSCE delegation Peter Ayker to stop arresting activists of the opposition and to release the arrested immediately. The opposition answers all these with mass meetings and demonstrations that are as crowded as those of 1988. And it's not by chance that broadcasting of the Russian TV channel has been stopped as they used to show all these meetings and mood of the people. It's dangerous for the authorities as population of Armenia gets assured that Russia doesn't want at all to "ignore" electoral crimes of Kocharian's regime. It's already clear that the meetings will be held on March 1,2,3 as well. Though the opposition hasn't declared of its participation in the second round yet, Robert Kocharian has echoed to this prospective rather specifically, "You offer me to go and ask somebody to take part in the second round. It's up to them. But whether they participate or not, the second round will take place by all means". And in general, the only goal of R. Kocharian's press conference was to display that he firmly intends to be re-elected for the presidency, and no obstacle will be taken into account. Only representatives of the dashnak elite take part in public debates with the opposition, whereas the ARP and the "Orinats Yerkir" avoid it. On the other hand, the fact that Kocharian personally visits his staffs and gives instructions personally shows that he doesn't trust his head of the staff S. Sargsian. The mood of the staff is not optimistic either as they obviously realize that are neglected by the whole society. Actually, we face a hard situation; the authorities can't surrender as in case of the authority shift, crime committed in the pre-electoral period as well as during the Election Day, will be punished. As for the opposition, it can't surrender either, as if it loses, it can be wholly abolished, not only in organizational but in physical sense as well. Thanks to the activities of the authorities the two sides have burnt all the bridges, and dialogue is practically impossible. In this situation, we can face rather sharp and painful versions of outcome. So, we only have to hope that we'll manage to avoid slaughter. http://www.iravunk.com/eng/2003/print/p1402.html

Media program says Armenia "failed the test" during campaign and election coverage By Julia Hakobyan and John Hughes, ArmeniaNow reporters Armenia Now 28 February 2003 Internews, a United States government-sponsored media development program is calling upon Armenian journalists to "arm themselves with courage and objectivity for these last difficult days of the electoral campaign". At a news conference today in Internews' Yerevan headquarters, Chief of Party William M. Canter and managing director Nouneh Sarkissian told journalists their agency is troubled by episodes of intimidation, physical attacks and destruction of recording equipment inflicted on the media during the Presidential Election. "These incidents are a serious setback to the progress of civil society in Armenia," Canter said. "I'm deeply concerned that the development of a free, unbiased and objective media is being gravely hindered." Veteran Armenian journalist Sarkissian called last week's Presidential elections "a step back" for democratic principles, saying that the efforts of journalists were more restricted this election than in previous ones. "Every time when we switched the channels we could only find biased information and to feel a sense of shame," Sarkissian said. "We got confused realizing that the reality is not being reflected in an adequate way." An Internews statement was released to about 40 journalists attending the press conference in which the agency calls elections a "test of the mass media's professionalism . . . Armenian media, broadcasters in particular, did not pass the test in February 2003." While critical of the media performance Sarkissian said the purpose of the meeting was not to accuse journalists, but to find ways to improve their performance. "Our mission in Armenia is to strengthen independent media and work to allow all journalists an editorial environment that encourages the professional, objective and honest dissemination of information," Canter said. Much of the hour-long meeting centered on one of Internews' own television programs. Each week Internews produces "Ditak" (Spyglass) a 20-minute news program that focuses on one topic from what project assistant Tatevik Oganesyan called "an eyeglass, a magnifying glass, then a microscope". Part of Internews presence in Armenia is to produce "Ditak" and distribute to 23 stations throughout the country. Last week's program focused on alleged election fraud and included video interviews of voters' accusations, including one group complaining that they were offered up to 10,000 drams (about $17) each for their votes, but then were not paid. Internews says it has agreements with all 23 stations to air "Ditak" each week. But last Sunday, Shant, generally considered to present pro-government programming, refused to air the program. Internews producer Armen Sargsyan says his program was the 66th edition of "Ditak" produced since November 2001 and is the first Shant has refused to broadcast. Artur Yezekyan, Director of Shant TV company told ArmeniaNow his company refused to air the program because it was slanted. "The program from its beginning to the end was biased and partial," says Yezekyan. "There were presented only one-sided comments without referring to the other side." In other election-related news: More campaign-related arrests were reported today. In the Shengavit district at least three people are being detained for 15 days. Head of the Regional Council of Shengavit, Edik Madatyan, who was arrested February 22 as part of the police enforcement of illegal public demonstration, had to be taken to hospital with a bleeding stomach ulcer. Russian television channel NTV, which broadcasts in Armenia, went off the air as it was broadcasting coverage of anti-government demonstrations Wednesday night. The National Commission of Radio and TV says the channel is having transmission problems with its Armenian feed. The channel has been dark since Wednesday, but is expected to be restored. Wednesday, the Opposition announced it would hold a campaign rally Saturday at the Institute of Manuscripts. Yesterday, the Dashnakstutyun Party ("Dashnaks"), one of the oldest parties in Armenia and supporters of President Robert Kocharyan, announced a counter-demonstration for the time at the same place. But today, Aghvan Vardanyan, head of the Dashnak Party in Parliament, told ArmeniaNow that together with other parties supporting Kocharyan, a decision would be made tonight on whether to hold concurrent rallies. Yesterday Kocharyan visited various campaign headquarters. Today both he and his opponent, Stepan Demirchyan, went to Tsitsernakaberd monument to pay honor to those who died 15 years ago during pogroms in Sumgait, Azerbaijan which was the flashpoint of the war in Artsax. Former Prime Minister and would-be Presidential candidate Raffi Hovhannisian appeared in court today, asking that his citizenship status be reconsidered. The U.S.-born Hovhanissian, was granted Armenian citizenship in 2001, but has argued that he was illegally denied citizenship when he first applied in 1991. Earlier this month a court ruled Hovhannisian ineligible to stand for President, as he did not meet the 10-year citizenship requirement. A court is expected to rule on his latest motion in a week. (ArmeniaNow reporters Zhanna Alexanyan and Vahan Ishkhanyan contributed to this report.) --- http://www.armenianow.com/2003/specialedit...ion/february28/ P.S. Based on the criterion above, I don't understand how does Kocharyan qualify for citizenship of Armenia? - MJ

quote:Originally posted by Sasun: Shouldn't you be in Armenia to support the Constitutional Law in Armenia? In my opinion, your demonstration on a foreign land will only hurt Armenia's international standing. It will not have any positive effect.[/QB] Don't you worry about my location. International standing of Armenia? What International standing? It is remarkable that you would find the actions of protest hearting the "international standing of Armenia" and not the outright banditism, election stealing, reprisals or the paralysis of the constitution of Armenia. [ March 01, 2003, 05:04 AM: Message edited by: MJ ]

quote:Originally posted by MosJan:yes chem havatum vor Demirjian@ 50% e havaqel vorqan vro qocharyan@ kertsiqner yev xarrdaxutyun anel karror iynqan yev mi ban el aveli Demirjyan@ yev ir @enkerner@! chnayats vro voch mekn el chem havatum - chem el havaknum voch mekin!!! Today, I have asked my friends, who are not representing Demirchyan's campaign what is the basis of allegations that "Demirchyan's camp has also committed falsifications in elections." They responded to me that they have had presence in 75% of the electoral precincts, and have no such observation. They also said that this allegation has been put forward by Kocharyan in a Press Conference. A representative of my friends' press team has asked Kocharyan, then, "Isn't it the obligation of your government to not allow such falsifications in the elections? Why have you allowed it?" Kocharyan has answered, "Because we are very tolerant towards our opposition." If I was not tired tonight, I would have opened a thread devoted to this "masterpiece" of Kocharyan in the Humor Section.

Latest news from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - http://www.osce.org OSCE CIO CALLS FOR RELEASE OF PEOPLE DETAINED DURING ARMENIAN ELECTIONS THE HAGUE, 28 February 2003 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, expressed his concern about the tensions surrounding the campaign leading up to the second round of presidential elections in Armenia, to be held on 5 March. The Chairman-in-Office stressed that there is no place for intimidation, violence or unconstitutional action, from any side, in an election campaign. Also in the interest of defusing tensions ahead of this second round, the CiO calls for the release of people detained because of their involvement in non-violent campaign activities. Minister de Hoop Scheffer calls on Armenian authorities to respect the commitments under the OSCE Copenhagen Document of 1990, which stipulate that political campaigning "be conducted in a fair and free atmosphere in which neither administrative action, violence nor intimidation bars the parties and the candidates from freely presenting their views and qualifications, or prevents the voters from learning and discussing them or from casting their vote free of fear of retribution".

I have just obtained permission from the 17th Precinct of New York Police Department to organize a demonstration of protest in front of the Armenian Mission at the UN at 119 East 36st Street, on Monday, between 5:00-7:00pm on behalf of the Committee for Free and Fair elections in Armenia, which I am forming effective today. I will make more details available over the weekend. Those in support of Constitutional Law in Armenia are welcome to attend. EDIT: I have corrected the typo in the address. [ February 28, 2003, 08:39 PM: Message edited by: MJ ]

I have just obtained permission from the 17th Precinct of New York Police Department to organize a demonstration of protest in front of the Armenian Mission at the UN at 119 East 36st Street, on Monday, between 5:00-7:00pm on behalf of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Armenia, which I am forming effective today. I will make more details available over the weekend. Those in support of the Constitutional Law in Armenia are welcome to attend. EDIT: I have corrected the typo in the address. [ February 28, 2003, 08:38 PM: Message edited by: MJ ]

quote:Originally posted by ARR:MJ, do you have psychic powers? Can you tell across the ocean who got how many votes or who falsified how much? I wish you could. And where and when have you seen me to do electoral arithmetics across the ocean?

ARMENIA: MASS ARRESTS BEFORE RUNOFF A1 Plus 28-02-2003 09:01:30 Mass detentions of opposition campaign officials threaten the integrity of Armenia's March 5 presidential election runoff, Human Rights Watch said today. Since Saturday, police have arrested at least 150 supporters of Stepan Demirchian, the challenger to incumbent President Robert Kocharian. "These arrests appear to be a clumsy attempt to disable the opposition in the week before the runoff election," said Elizabeth Andersen, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. "Detainees should be released immediately," said Andersen. "They've had no access to due process. What is worse, new reports suggest police are overstepping all legal boundaries in their hunt for opposition activists." From Groong

BTW, let it be known that the most outrageous violations, falsifications and reappraisals are being conducted by ARF.

A1 Plus 09:32:22 Friday, 28 February 2003 ( official ) PREPARED STATEMENT BY WILLIAM M. CANTER February 28, 2003 Yerevan, Armenia My name is William M. Canter and I am the Chief of Party here at Internews Armenia. I am going to read a prepared statement. Copies of this statement are available to you in this room. I will not be entertaining any questions at this time. I am here today to address the members of the mass media and other concerned parties in Armenia about our disappointment and frustration with the lack of ability that you have had to do your jobs as responsible, objective and balanced professional journalists. We have all heard of the alleged incidents regarding the harassment of the media that took place during the pre-election campaign and on including Election Day. Unfortunately, it is the lack of information, to the public, that brings us here today. Let me be very clear. Internews decries the use of any violence or harassment and we are especially troubled when it is directed to members of the media. Recent incidents surrounding the election have once again called our attention to the ongoing problems facing journalists. These incidents are a serious setback to the progress of civil society in Armenia. I'm deeply concerned that the development of a free, unbiased and objective media is being gravely hindered. Internews wants to express its continued disappointment with regard to these actions and how they combine with an overwhelming movement in Armenia to hinder accredited, professional journalists from doing their jobs. The presence of such pressures only serves to enhance the existing atmosphere of fear in the society, increases self-censorship in the mass media and hampers the dissemination of free and unbiased information, which can only lead to less than accurate, unbalanced and subjective reporting. The media's role in a developing nation is to offer free and unfettered access to information. These alleged attacks and other related issues that have been reported during the Presidential Election campaign are cause for deep apprehension by Internews. Our mission in Armenia is to strengthen independent media and work to allow all journalists an editorial environment that encourages the professional, objective and honest dissemination of information. The opinion expressed herein does not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency for International Development, the U.S. Government or any other funding partners of Internews Armenia.

Just a couple of more words on the program: In an election campaign that is as short as in Armenia, and when the opposition candidates are denied access to the means of media, I don't know how one can articulate a comprehensive program. However, it should be known that few weeks ago, Raffi Hovahannessian has published a 700 page book containing comprehensive research into the Strategic Development of Armenia till the year 2020. The chapters of this book are written by various political activists and scholars in Armenia. Given that Raffi is in the opposition camp, one can safely take this document for a foundation of the Program for the Development of Armenia.

The information that emerges from the Republic is very disturbing. The Constitution is paralyzed. More than 200 people are detained by the police. The families don't know where their husbands and sons are. Police comes to the homes at about 5:00am and takes the people away. It reminds the round-offs of the Stalinian period. Most of the activists don't sleep in their homes not to be detained by the police. The criminal structures which have merged with the government for several years, now, have declarted, "We'll kill, but will not yield power." If this is not the time for action, then there is no time for it ever, I think.

28-02-2003 05:35:00 APPEAL TO DIASPORAN ARMENIANS, DEMOCRATIC FORCES AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC A peaceful public demonstration will take place in Hollywood this Saturday in support of Armenian Presidential Candidate Stepan Demirchyan. This is in protest to the mass riggings and serious violations by the Kocharyan regime during the February 19th Presidential elections in Armenia. At this crucial and critical juncture for the Armenian people, it is extremely important for each of us to adopt an active civic posture. Everybody knows that the criminal authorities of present day Armenia are trying to snatch the victory notched by the People’s Party and its leader Stepan Gareni Demirchyan, in the February 19th presidential elections – which is a victory for the Armenian people as well – by falsifying the results of said elections. In so doing, they are also trying to put the brakes on the progress of our people and country for another five years, and extend the despotic regime, or dictatorship, of President Robert Kocharian and his clan. Considering the tyrannical acts being committed and numerous arrests being made in Armenia in recent days, as well as the unstable and potentially explosive situation prevailing in that country, the staff of Stepan Demirchyan’s Los Angeles campaign headquarters is appealing to all Armenians, all citizens of Armenia, who are concerned about Armenia’s future and zealous defenders of democratic principles, to come together in a show of unity, in order to fight for the downfall of tyranny in Armenia. http://www.a1plus.am/eng/?goto=news&id=3015

Orran EDITORIAL The Language of Authority (Ishkhaneren) All that happened on February 19 and is happening these days is impossible to explain in Armenian. It cannot even be described in Turkish, German, or any other language of the world. It cannot be told part by part. It may be told only in a newly invented language. And this language is the language of the authorities. This is a language of open lies and absolute impudence. This is a language in which the word "Armenia" is written with a small letter, and the word "pasture" with a capital letter. The Urals do not separate Europe and Asia as strictly as Mr. Kocharian separated our society and our people. Now the presidential elections are not elections any more. They became a struggle. The people stood up to defend democracy, to protect their dignity, their constitutional rights, and the future of their country. And from whom? Others may not believe this, but it is an unhappy reality for us-the people are defending their constitutional rights from their own authorities. And it is not strange that pan-national meetings became frequent. All that is happening today in Armenia is nothing else but the struggle of democracy against usurpation. These authorities are arresting people only because they are the members of the opposition candidate's campaign. They turn hundreds of people into criminals, and they are encouraging immorality and illegality. This is the language in which today's authorities speak with the people. And after all this they want the people to trust and re-elect them. That will not happen. It is impossible. http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg64161.html

Armenia: Mass Arrests Before Runoff Human Rights Watch February 28, 2003 (New York, February 28, 2003) Mass detentions of opposition campaign officials threaten the integrity of Armenia's March 5 presidential election runoff, Human Rights Watch said today. Since Saturday, police have arrested at least 150 supporters of Stepan Demirchian, the challenger to incumbent President Robert Kocharian. Police in Yerevan and the provinces arrested Demirchian activists - including his local campaign managers and registered proxies - in pre-dawn raids on their homes. In one incident yesterday, Yerevan police detained a 20-year-old woman to compel her father, a Demirchian campaign headquarters official, to turn himself in. "These arrests appear to be a clumsy attempt to disable the opposition in the week before the runoff election," said Elizabeth Andersen, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. Pro-government media initially reported a first round victory for Kocharian in the February 19 poll, with more than 50 percent of the vote. The Central Electoral Commission withheld preliminary results hours beyond the legal deadline on February 20, citing snow for the delay. On February 20, tens of thousands of Demirchian supporters demonstrated in Yerevan, voicing their fears that Kocharian may falsify victory, eliminating the need for a run-off. The results eventually published gave just under 50 percent for Kocharian. Since February 20, three largely peaceful Demirchian rallies have taken place in Yerevan. The municipal government withheld authorization from the first two. Justice Ministry spokesman Ara Saghatelian revealed today that district courts had imposed administrative penalties against 150 people. Eighty-six were given prison sentences of up to fifteen days; others were fined. Most were charged under Article 180 of the Code of Administrative Violations. Article 180 penalizes organizing and leading unauthorized marches and demonstrations, but not participation in such events. Yet the arrests have included some who were not rally organizers. When Human Rights Watch yesterday asked the president of Yerevan's Center and Nork-Marash district court about this discrepancy, he declined to comment. Other offenses cited by the ministry included violations of public order, acts of hooliganism, and disobeying police. Armenian authorities would not identify what specific acts justified the charges, and in a statement to the press instead referred to some of the detainees' alleged prior criminal records. Monitors and lawyers could not clarify the grounds for the charges because they were not admitted to the court hearings. "Detainees should be released immediately," said Andersen. "They've had no access to due process. What is worse, new reports suggest police are overstepping all legal boundaries in their hunt for opposition activists." Yerevan's Center and Nork-Marash district court has handed down the majority of the administrative sentences to date, most of them on February 24. On that day police "red berets" surrounded the court building. Lawyers and relatives of the accused were not admitted. The president of the court yesterday confirmed to Human Rights Watch that none of the accused had legal representation. Straining credibility, he claimed that all eighty-six had declined to be represented. In many cases, colleagues, lawyers, and relatives have been refused accurate information on detainees' whereabouts: * Tigran Ter-Yesaian, a lawyer trying to defend detainees in Yerevan in recent days, told Ayb-Fe news agency: "When we go to police departments, we are told the detainee is in court. When we go to the court, they say he or she is in one of the police departments. Before the confusion is resolved, a court verdict for fifteen days of administrative detention has already been issued." * The father of a bus driver from the town of Vedi, arrested on February 22, after driving Demirchian supporters to Yerevan appealed to the Armenian Helsinki Committee on February 24 to help locate his son, whom the police had taken away to an undisclosed location. Many arrested activists throughout the country are reportedly unaccounted for. There are increasing reports of arbitrary and abusive conduct in the implementation of arrests: * In the morning of February 26, police went to the Yerevan apartment of Abraham Kirakosian, a Demirchian campaign headquarters activist. Failing to find him there, they detained his 20-year-old daughter. On hearing of this, Kirakosian turned himself in to police within three hours, whereupon his daughter was released. * On February 24, Noyan Tapan news agency reported that police in the Shengavit district of Yerevan seized a Ford automobile equipped with loudspeakers, belonging to the Demirchian campaign. The driver and passengers were all reportedly sentenced to fifteen days of administrative detention. http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/02/armenia0228.htm

DEMIRCHIAN GEARS UP FOR SECOND ROUND By Karine Kalantarian and Ruzanna Khachatrian Opposition candidate Stepan Demirchian is making preparations for the March 5 second round of the Armenian presidential election, while not ruling out the possibility of boycotting it in protest against reported first-round irregularities. Officials at Demirchian’s campaign headquarters told RFE/RL on Thursday that the leader of the People’s Party of Armenia (HZhK) will expand his campaign of anti-government street protests into other parts of the country. An HZhK spokeswoman said he will hold campaign rallies in the second and third largest cities of Gyumri and Vanadzor this weekend. But she made it clear that Demirchian’s participation in the showdown run-off with incumbent President Robert Kocharian is not a forgone conclusion. The HZhK and 12 other opposition parties supporting him refuse to recognize the official results of the February 19 first round which gave Kocharian 49.5 percent of the vote to Demirchian’s 28.2 percent. The opposition, which has held a series of anti-government rallies over the past week, claims that Kocharian did much worse and demands that the authorities punish those involved in the alleged vote rigging. Still, Demirchian is widely expected to stay in the race. His campaign ads continue to be broadcast by state television under free air time guaranteed by the Armenian election law. “I think he should go into the second round and win,” said Vazgen Manukian, another opposition candidate who now supports Demirchian. Manukian, who fared extremely poorly in the first round, dismissed some opposition arguments that the HZhK leader should quit the race because the run-off will also be marred by serious irregularities. “This is the country we have. What else can we do?” he said in an interview with RFE/RL. Manukian also urged Demirchian to present to voters a detailed plan of action for his would-be presidency. “He would have to create a government and a situation that is good for our people,” he said. The veteran politician, who nearly became Armenia’s president in 1996, further said that he and his National Democratic Union (AZhM) party have not discussed any power-sharing agreements with Demirchian in the event of his victory. Opposition sources had told RFE/RL earlier that Demirchian finalized such an arrangement with his two closest allies, former Prime Minister Aram Sarkisian and former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian. The coalition of opposition forces supporting Kocharian’s main challenger has since expanded dramatically. The opposition alliance, buoyed by Kocharian’s worse-than-expected performance, is now trying to keep up pressure on the authorities by rallying tens of thousands of people. Kocharian accused them on Wednesday of destabilizing the political situation in Armenia and pledged tough measures to maintain “law and order.” Manukian admitted that the situation has grown “dangerous,” but laid the blame on the authorities. “That danger stems from the fact that Robert Kocharian is trying to cling to power at any cost,” he said. http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniarepor...B444C92BE3E.ASP

Alpha, I do remember the violations in 1996. I don’t recall opposition members going into extended hiding, however. While, as I said, I have been glad that the previous administration was changed, I give them my due respect for having the dignity to leave with their entire team when the crisis became emphasized. While I have been upset with their violations, there is a huge difference in scale of violations on the relative scale. From all I can see, the opposition is acting with dignity, in our days, within the framework that it is put in. I also share your expectations regarding the future of the Armenian government and your parallel with the Yugoslavian government. Hope the transition takes place with minimal pain.

It appears that the arrest of the key figures of opposition have unbundled on a mass scale. Most of the trusties of the opposition in the electoral comities seem to have been arrested. There are many people who have been taken from their homes by people who have not even introduced themselves. There are families that don’t even know where their members are after being taken away. I don’t recall this kind of state terror even in the Soviet times.

quote:Originally posted by bellthecat: quote:Originally posted by MJ:Steve, I can address your hyperventilation/imsinuations sentence-by-sentence, but I really am not interested. Or, as Cartman would say, "F**k you guys, I'm going home!"I am sorry to observe your world shrinking from Starbucks to South Park. I had illusions that you where capable for more than that.

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Ï»ÕÍÇùÝ»ñÇó, Ùï³Í»ù Ó»ñ ³å³•³ÛÇ Ù³ëÇÝ: ÆÝã ¿É ³Ý»ù, å³ñáݳÛù, ÅáÕáíáõñ¹Á ѳÕÃ»É ¿, Ëáѻ٠»Õ»ù áõ ÙÇ ¹ÇÙ»ù Ï»ÕÍÇùÝ»ñÇ, ë³¹ñ³ÝùÝ»ñÇ: ¼ñáõÛóÁª öÆðàô¼² غÈÆøêºÂÚ²ÜÆ http://www.iravunk.com/arm/2003/02/m1301.html [ February 28, 2003, 06:50 AM: Message edited by: MJ ]

Last Convulsions of the Moribund Administration 25.02.2003, The opposition answered the results of voting, received by absolutely criminal ways, with a new wave of mass meetings and marches of protest. These were followed by nervous steps of the administration - arrest of numerous opposition activists and open threats to people. People were put under arrest under the pretence of tearing Robert Kocharian's slogans and attacking representatives of one of the electoral staffs of the present president. It's not out of place to mention here that one of the reasons of this attack was a number of cynical remarks concerning falsification of the election results, which were also accompanied with swearing. But the most interesting is the fact that most of the arrested are leaders of Stepan Demirchian's staff and several authorized representatives who have appeared to be rather active in their struggle against forgery. Moreover, there are people among the arrested who even haven't participated in the meetings and protest marches. So, it becomes clear that the main aim of the arrests is isolating heads of the staffs and the most efficient authorized representatives till the end of the elections. We should mention here, in order to formulate the administrative arrests legally, they have organized night lawsuits - calling judges after midnight and making them issuing corresponding verdicts, what is perhaps targeted at spreading fear. But the masterpiece among all these was Robert Kocharian's threatening speech on TV. Declaration of the mayor Robert Nazarian concerning illegality of meetings, marches and demonstrations was attached to it as well as TV threatening of Vice General Prefect Hovhannes Varian. Finally, all this was summed up with political declaration of the Board of Ministry of Defense in defense of Robert Kocharian and with bringing troops into Yerevan. Particularly, the last one - interference of the minister of Defense to the elections - is nothing else but obvious involvement of the army into the internal political affairs of the country, which can hardly be appreciated by international community, and can wholly damage international credit of Armenia as well as its reputation. But reputation of the country is the last thing to interest criminal clan oligarchies headed by R. Kocharian and S. Sargsian. These steps of the administration had opposite results, and on February 23 there were twice more people at the meeting than at previous ones. Speaking about the number of participants, the authorities represent 25 thousand people, Russian TV - nearly 60 thousand, Western mass media - more than 100 thousand, and those organizing the meeting speak of 200-300 participants. Without going into details, one should know that these meeting are not less crowded than those of 1988. There is similarity in people's mood as well: though the police closed the entrances to the city, people came to the meeting even on foot. As it was in 1988, social problems were ignored or at least regarded as secondary, while dignity was considered to be in the first place. Perhaps, the difference is that then people were fighting for territorial wholeness of their motherland, and today they demand guarantees for civil rights, first of all suffrage. Behavior of the authorities, manners of preaching mechanisms is also the same: people listen to lies and threatening and nothing more. Even the vocabulary is the same. Unfortunately, "such wise" announcements agitating and getting on the nerves of people, discredit profession of journalist. Activity of the meetings has another reason as well: meeting serve as an alternative source of information, they fill the gap provided by national TV that stands for and praises Kocharian alone. At the same time they act as a means of relaxation for people, means of "discharging" from negative emotions. At present, there is a kind of "ceasefire" between the authorities and the opposition. The next meeting will take place on February 26, i.e. after the CEC makes the final results public. By the way, one of the main demands of the participants is publishing real results of the elections and punishing those who have forged the elections. It's clear that real votes of Kocharian couldn't surpass 250 thousand, then it's still a question whether he or Artashes Geghamian would have compete with Stepan Demirchian. As for A. Geghamian, he still puts forward the issue of annulling the results of the first round and avoids supporting any of the candidates of the second round. Perhaps, head of the "National Unity" prefers neutrality, to be victorious, anyway. If the results are declared invalid, he'll be "in" again, if waves of meetings and international pressure make Kocharian resign his commissions till the Election Day, then Geghamian will compete with Demirchian on March 5. At present, we face last convulsions of the moribund administration that acts without any logic. It claims again and again that the opposition has carried on forgery taken place during the elections. It's not excluded that the authorities will try to tense the situation in order to have a pretext to use force. But it'll be hard for them to keep their power in this way, as there is no state in the world that will stand for dictatorial regime. As for the opposition coalition supporting Stepan Demirchian, it will start holding permanent meetings beginning from February 26 in order to keep voters rather active as well as to counteract the illegality of the authorities rather quickly and efficiently. By the way, western mass media points out, that it's the first case in the history of Caucasus and Middle Asia, after the collapse of the USSR, when the functioning president doesn't succeed in his victory in the first round of the elections. http://www.iravunk.com/eng/2003/02/p1301.html

Azat, Let's wait and see what happens in the next week or so.

Steve, I can address your hyperventilation/imsinuations sentence-by-sentence, but I really am not interested.