Image: Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010. Author: Kremlin.ru
A thousand ethnic Armenians in the diaspora enclave of Glendale, California, held a protest recently to demand that their homeland free political prisoners.
Ethnic Armenians in the United States and Europe are politically active, so a demonstration to call attention to something going on in their homeland was nothing new.
Except for one thing: Some in the Glendale crowd held signs calling for Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation.
The demands for his abdication came on the heels of an opposition group’s seizure of a police station in Armenia that focused world attention …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
