Keywords: Armenian Presidential Elections 2008 Protest Day 11 - 1224AM Miasnikyan Square - bulk of demonstrators2.jpg The 11th day of Armenian presidential election protests At 7 30 am the peaceful camp-in protest at Liberty Square in Yerevan was violently ended by Armenian special forces which used truncheons and electric shock devices to disperse the crowd of around 1 000 At 12 30 pm a new crowd marches to the French Embassy in a spontaneous demonstration barricade themselves using abandoned police buses and grow in number to around 150 000 By 12 am about 2 000 demonstrators are left barricaded <br/><br/>In this picture 12 24 am the bulk of the approximately 2 000 demonstrators left in the area are at Miasnikyan Square in front of the French Embassy while only tens of people are at the site of the looting of a grocery store near the intersection of Mashdots Ave and G Lusavorich Street a quarter mile northwest of the location of this camera The nearest police are stationed at Shahuman Square 1/3 of a kilometer northeast of the location of this camera Police allow looting to continue in the area of Mashdots Ave and G Lusavorich for several hours as government TV crews film tens of people looting the grocery store View south-east; French embassy in background at center of image Own 2008-03-02 Serouj 40 10 29 19 N 44 30 18 28 E Demonstrations and protests relating to the Armenian presidential elections 2008 |