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Anti-Sargsyan chants looking for new destination

04 February 2015 [21:37] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Mushvig Mehdiyev

The Armenian opposition forces decided to turn Azerbaijan's occupied lands into a new stage for their anti-government marches. The latest incident in the Nagorno-Karabakh region could be interpreted as birth of a new phase of confrontation between the government and opposition forces in Armenia.

On January 31, members of the Founding Parliament, successor of the Pre-Parliament movement, organized a large-scale rally of 40 cars and 120 people to seek a regime change in Armenia. It was part of their efforts to enter the territory of the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh republic." But, the police of the puppet regime brutally suppressed the march, beating the protesters and busting the cars in an unprecedented violence.

The crackdown sparked an intensive public debate in Armenia, drawing harsh criticism of the self-proclaimed regime in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Nagorno-Karabakh region is Azerbaijan's historical and internationally recognized territory, which Armenia keeps under occupation for over two decades following a bloody war, killing dozens and displacing over a million of ethnic Azerbaijanis.

No comments have been made yet on the incident neither by Armenian nor the so-called "NK" officials.

Nikol Pashinyan, an opposition member of parliament, urged the authorities to create a special delegation to investigate the repressive incident and its consequences.

Armen Rustamyan, an Armenian Revolutionary Federation faction member, said the police of the so-called regime have suppressed violently the protest.

The Founding Parliament claimed that the convoy heading to Nagorno-Karabakh was deliberately attacked by the police, which resulted in injuries of several protesters.

Meanwhile, following the skirmishes in the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh republic" Raffi Hovanissian, one of the three influential opposition leaders in Armenia, called on the Armenian and puppet Karabakh regimes to step down for the sake of Armenia.

The Founding Parliament seeks to overthrow the incumbent regime in Armenia until the 100th anniversary of the falsified and unproven "Armenian genocide."

The Armenian National Congress, a leading opposition party, said there was a mature crisis in Armenia's public administration, which is deepening and primarily characterized by instability similar to the hassle in the country's financial management.

The local media called the incident a war of clans between the Armenians in Armenia and those in Azerbaijan's occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region, ruled by Armenian separatist regime. Bloody skirmish is also proved the fierce mutual hatred of the two repressive clans, according to media.

The opposition is seemingly trying to abuse Azerbaijan's lands for its political purposes to project a coup-d'etat of Sargsyan regime. But the, attempts to raise a protest wave in the occupied Azerbaijani territory have gone in vain, as the puppet rulers in Nagorno-Karabakh took every possible step to show its loyalty to their masters in Yerevan.

The existing brawl of the regime and opposition forces in Armenia is gradually reaching its climax amid the country's hard political and economic days. As for the dissent, the Armenian leadership has conceded the country's sovereignty to external forces, particularly to Russia.

Regime's crackdown has become so intolerable that even the local media (Zoghovurd newspaper) dismissed the moves of the authorities as a "manhunt" against anti-government minds.

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