YEREVAN. – The Armenian opposition Pre-Parliament initiative members on Saturday placed flowers nearby Downtown Yerevan’s Myasnikyan Statue, where tragic events had taken place on March 1, 2008 (PHOTOS). 

Initiative member Jirair Sefilian said, however, that they will not participate in the opposition Armenian National Congress rally to be held at Liberty Square, since they do not see the sense of it.

“A consolidation should take place outside of the working system. We decided no to do anything demonstrative today. But we had to come and pay our respects [to the victims]. The Pre-Parliament believes that we have not been able to place a meaning to the blood of the victims of March 1,” Sefilian noted, in particular.

Separately, members of the “Come out to the street” initiative will march from Myasnikyan Statue to the Presidential Palace.  

Earlier, Hayazn Party members placed flowers near the statue.

Following the presidential election that was conducted in Armenia on February 18, 2008, eight demonstrators and two police officers had died during a confrontation between the pro-government and the opposition forces on March 1 in Downtown Yerevan. But no one has yet been brought to account for the killings.    

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