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“INDEPENDENCE DAY IS THE DAY OF OUR HOMELESSNESS”

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At 6 p.m., September 21, residents of the “alienated zone” (Buzand, Ekmalyan, Pushkin, North and Main Avenues) gathered at President Robert Kocharian’s residence. They urged the president to restore their rights.

Over twenty policemen tried to keep order driving them away. “No matter how hard you try, the president will not appear.”

Meanwhile, the president was busy with official reception on the occasion of the Independence Day. The officials leaving the residence cast indifferent looks at the demonstrators.

“The Independence Day is a day of our homelessness. It is already a few years we are homeless, I don’t want to live in this country any more,” said Ms. Anahit, a resident of Buzand Street.

Raffi Hovannisian, the leader of the Heritage party went up to the presentees and congratulated them on the holiday. “First of all, it must be a holiday for the people, ” he said. “We cannot have free and independent country unless people feel free.”

Heritage members Anahit Bakhshyan and Stepan Safaryan called on the presentees to present their demands in a letter so that they could be able to raise their problems in the National Assembly.

On seeing that the demonstrators have no intention to disperse, the policemen began pushing and threatening them. “This is our country and it is within our rights to stand wherever we want,” the residents said.