HistoryofTruth.com - Armenian Allegations

Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) organized mass actions of protest against the Armenian-Turkish Protocols in Yerevan. The actions are being held in front ofArmenian Foreign Office and Armenian Government.

Twenty-four ARF members carrying banners reading "No concessions, no renunciation!" and "No preconditions!" are have staging a hunger strike in front of theArmenian Foreign Office. Among the strikers are the members of the ARF Executive Council, youth wing, as well as former deputy ministers and governors. The ARF Executive Council member Gegham Manukyan told that the actions of protest will last until October 14, the date of the football match between the Armenian and Turkish national teams. He pointed out that ARF members will replace one another during the action. A poster containing a list of ARF-drafted amendments to the Protocols has been put up not far from the scene of action. The participants organized a signature-collecting campaign for the proposed amendments. Manukyan gave assurances that the number of people putting their signatures is rather large. Head of the ARF parliamentary faction Vahan Hovhannisyan, who came to support the hunger-strikers assured that he will join the action after the four-day session of the Parliament.

ARF members are also staging a sit-in in front of the office building ofArmenian Government. The ARF Executive Council member Armen Rustamyan, who came to support his party mates, told that the actions of protest will produce result. "The only thing we have to do is to believe. We have to do something, don't we?"