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Karabakh war veteran starts hunger strike (video)
Karabakh war veteran Khachik Avetisyan is beginning a hunger strike outside the Ombudsman’s Office in Yerevan with a demand to release political prisoners in Armenia. Mr Avetisyan says he has chosen the venue deliberately to call Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan’s attention to his demand. Later in the evening the freedom fighter will go home and continue the hunger strike there until April 25. He will return to the site on Saturday and continue the protest there until the jailed members of the Founding parliament movement are set free. The Karabakh war veteran says they do not seek to come to power, nor do their want to join the ranks of the opposition. “We are all Armenians and we want to leave in peace,” he stressed.
