Posted on 07/28/2018 2:47:03 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Former President Robert Kocharian has been taken into custody by Armenian authorities after being charged in connection with the deadly crackdown on opposition protests following the disputed presidential election in 2008.
The case dates back to late February and early March 2008 in the wake of a disputed election to determine Kocharians successor.
Kocharians ally, Serzh Sarkisian, was declared the winner, angering the opposition and setting off 10 days of nonstop protests that led to a crackdown on March 1 in which 10 people, including two police officers, were killed.
Kocharian is accused of illegally ordering the violent dispersal of protesters.
Earlier on July 27, Yuri Khachaturov, the Armenian chief of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), was charged, like Kocharian, with overthrowing Armenia's constitutional order related to the 2008 crackdown.
The CSTO is a regional grouping that includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Critics say Russian President Vladimir Putin sees it as a way to increase Moscows influence in former Soviet republics and to counter the European Union and NATO.
The arrest comes as the government of new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a longtime anticorruption campaigner, has stepped up legal action against officials linked to the previous government.
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Obama
Clinton
Beware!
Then imagine the world being systematically cleansed of all psychopaths.
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Send Kim and crew over there. She and her crowd can clean anything up.
Kim K may have her hands full. Apparently Dennis Rodman has invited her husband, Kanye, to North Korea in the fall. Wonder if Kim would tag along if he goes LoL.
I don't see Kanye and Kim going to NK but ya never know.
Protestors try to overturn the democratic elections. Police and protestors clash, leading to a few deaths on each side. Eventually, the losers’ party wins an election... and he sends the older winner to prison?
I’m not sure who the dictator is. (I also know very little about this situation, so I’m not insisting one way or the other.)
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