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**** Leader of Armenia's 'non-violent velvet revolution' threatens to paralyze the country
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Nikol Pashinyan, late Tuesday evening, calling for his supporters on Wednesday to block buildings and roads. The violence gave him a black eye, and there is some blood on his bandaged right hand. (lragir.am)
Nikol Pashinyan, a member of Armenia's parliament from the opposition
Yelk party, is calling for a "non-violent velvet revolution," alluding
to the peaceful 1989 uprising that ousted the Communist regime in the
former Czechoslovakia. Pashinyan's objective is to prevent Serzh
Sargsyan, who has served ten years as Armenia's president, from
continuing in power as Armenia's prime minister under a new
constitution.
Protesters are particularly incensed that Sargsyan had promised not to
run for prime minister after the constitution was changed, but now is
running anyway.
With protesters chanting "Serzh the liar," Pashinyan has been calling
for widespread strikes, and blockades of streets and government
buildings in Armenia's capital city Yerevan, with the objective of
preventing the parliament from voting to make Sargsyan the prime
minister.
There were widespread protests across several cities, with students
blocking roads and buildings. At least 46 people were injured in the
protests, including six police officers. More than 60 people were
arrested. Pashinyan himself was taken to a hospital with cuts and an
eye injury, but he returned to speak to the crowd and urge further
protests.
On Tuesday, the parliament voted overwhelmingly, 76 to 17 with no
abstentions, to elect former president Sargsyan as the prime minister
under the new constitution.
Late on Tuesday, Pashinyan addressed the crowd and called for
widespread protests to block government agencies, streets and
highways.
<QUOTE>"Tomorrow at 10 am, I will be waiting for you on
France Square where our actions will start and will be concluded
on Republic Square. ...
On the upcoming days we will form velvet revolution committees
which will lead this movement till victory. Revolutionary
committees will be created in all areas and regions of the
country. Very soon all the government agencies of Armenia,
including the police will have to perform the orders of the
revolutionary committees, not of Serzh Sargsyan.
Tomorrow morning we must paralyze entire Armenia, from the 9th
district to 3rd, 4th villages. Serzh Sargsyan and his servants
must not have room to move in Yerevan, they must move along the
crossing points that we will decide. Tomorrow we set up crossing
points in Yerevan streets which are intended for the Republicans
and their riffraff only."<END QUOTE>
RFE/RL and Lragir (Armenia) and News (Armenia) and NPR
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**** Brief generational history of Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan
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Armenia had two generational crisis wars, over 70 years apart, during
the 20th century.
The first occurred during World War I between 1915-17, when over a
million Armenians were massacred, deported from their homeland in
Anatolia (Turkey)to present-day Syria. Armenia considers the killings
genocide, a charge that Turkey denies.
The second generational crisis war was the conflict between 1989-94
with Azerbaijan over the enclave Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh
is an Armenian-occupied region within Azerbaijan, and the source of
continuing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Today, Armenia is in a generational Awakening era, one generation past
the end of the previous generational crisis war. Student protests are
common in Awakening eras (as in America and Europe in the 1960s),
because this is the coming of age of the first generation growing up
after the crisis war. So the student protests occurring this week in
Armenia are typical of this era.
Although the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan was an external war,
more research is needed on the question of the extent to which it was
also an ethnic conflict between the ethnic Armenians and the ethnic
Turkic population of Azerbaijan.
During this week's protests, with the objective of preventing former
president Serzh Sargsyan from becoming prime minister, opposition
leader Nikol Pashinyan said the following:
<QUOTE>"Serzh Sargsyan is trying to change the essence of our
country. He’s transforming it into western Azerbaijan. We aren’t
citizens of Azerbaijan. We are citizens of Armenia. We aren’t
citizens of North Korea or of Kazakhstan."<END QUOTE>
Media sources do not explain what Pashinyan means by "transforming it
into western Azerbaijan." This suggests an ethnic issue, and requires
more research. Hetq (Armenia) and BBC
Related articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, Nikol Pashinyan,
Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Leader of Armenia's 'non-violent velvet revolution' threatens to paralyze the country
- Brief generational history of Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan
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**** Leader of Armenia's 'non-violent velvet revolution' threatens to paralyze the country
****
Nikol Pashinyan, late Tuesday evening, calling for his supporters on Wednesday to block buildings and roads. The violence gave him a black eye, and there is some blood on his bandaged right hand. (lragir.am)
Nikol Pashinyan, a member of Armenia's parliament from the opposition
Yelk party, is calling for a "non-violent velvet revolution," alluding
to the peaceful 1989 uprising that ousted the Communist regime in the
former Czechoslovakia. Pashinyan's objective is to prevent Serzh
Sargsyan, who has served ten years as Armenia's president, from
continuing in power as Armenia's prime minister under a new
constitution.
Protesters are particularly incensed that Sargsyan had promised not to
run for prime minister after the constitution was changed, but now is
running anyway.
With protesters chanting "Serzh the liar," Pashinyan has been calling
for widespread strikes, and blockades of streets and government
buildings in Armenia's capital city Yerevan, with the objective of
preventing the parliament from voting to make Sargsyan the prime
minister.
There were widespread protests across several cities, with students
blocking roads and buildings. At least 46 people were injured in the
protests, including six police officers. More than 60 people were
arrested. Pashinyan himself was taken to a hospital with cuts and an
eye injury, but he returned to speak to the crowd and urge further
protests.
On Tuesday, the parliament voted overwhelmingly, 76 to 17 with no
abstentions, to elect former president Sargsyan as the prime minister
under the new constitution.
Late on Tuesday, Pashinyan addressed the crowd and called for
widespread protests to block government agencies, streets and
highways.
<QUOTE>"Tomorrow at 10 am, I will be waiting for you on
France Square where our actions will start and will be concluded
on Republic Square. ...
On the upcoming days we will form velvet revolution committees
which will lead this movement till victory. Revolutionary
committees will be created in all areas and regions of the
country. Very soon all the government agencies of Armenia,
including the police will have to perform the orders of the
revolutionary committees, not of Serzh Sargsyan.
Tomorrow morning we must paralyze entire Armenia, from the 9th
district to 3rd, 4th villages. Serzh Sargsyan and his servants
must not have room to move in Yerevan, they must move along the
crossing points that we will decide. Tomorrow we set up crossing
points in Yerevan streets which are intended for the Republicans
and their riffraff only."<END QUOTE>
RFE/RL and Lragir (Armenia) and News (Armenia) and NPR
****
**** Brief generational history of Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan
****
Armenia had two generational crisis wars, over 70 years apart, during
the 20th century.
The first occurred during World War I between 1915-17, when over a
million Armenians were massacred, deported from their homeland in
Anatolia (Turkey)to present-day Syria. Armenia considers the killings
genocide, a charge that Turkey denies.
The second generational crisis war was the conflict between 1989-94
with Azerbaijan over the enclave Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh
is an Armenian-occupied region within Azerbaijan, and the source of
continuing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Today, Armenia is in a generational Awakening era, one generation past
the end of the previous generational crisis war. Student protests are
common in Awakening eras (as in America and Europe in the 1960s),
because this is the coming of age of the first generation growing up
after the crisis war. So the student protests occurring this week in
Armenia are typical of this era.
Although the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan was an external war,
more research is needed on the question of the extent to which it was
also an ethnic conflict between the ethnic Armenians and the ethnic
Turkic population of Azerbaijan.
During this week's protests, with the objective of preventing former
president Serzh Sargsyan from becoming prime minister, opposition
leader Nikol Pashinyan said the following:
<QUOTE>"Serzh Sargsyan is trying to change the essence of our
country. He’s transforming it into western Azerbaijan. We aren’t
citizens of Azerbaijan. We are citizens of Armenia. We aren’t
citizens of North Korea or of Kazakhstan."<END QUOTE>
Media sources do not explain what Pashinyan means by "transforming it
into western Azerbaijan." This suggests an ethnic issue, and requires
more research. Hetq (Armenia) and BBC
Related articles:
- Turkey, Armenia hold dueling WW1 centennials over genocide and Gallipoli (25-Apr-2015)
- Armenia-Azerbaijan escalating conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh threatens the entire region (03-Apr-2016)
- Azerbaijan faces rising radical Shia Islamist insurgency (07-Dec-2015)
- Armenia says it's 'ready for war' with Azerbaijan 'bastards' (04-Sep-2012)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, Nikol Pashinyan,
Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
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