All day I have just been disgusted at the authorities here, especially with Kocharian. As I was always told growing up, "the fish stinks from it's head". As I learned more and more, it was more and more disgusting. Here is the story. They turned off the lights on the street long enough to move the water cannons closer to the protesters. The riot police and special forces hid up and down every single escape route the protesters could have. And at 2 in the morning, when everything was completely peaceful, they attacked the protestors violently, treating them worse than animals. As they tried to run away, their every exit was blocked and they were beaten savagely. I saw footage of blood taken this morning as far as Mashdots and Cascade. I don't know how some of those people sustained so much blood loss. The oppressed media has virtually ignored these events, much like when Kocharian's bodyguard killed a man at Poplavok for saying something disrespectful to him. (not vulgar, just disrespectful). I would be surprised if nobody has died from injuries - that is how much blood I saw in the footage. And Kocharian has not even put on the facade of innocent, and has not even tried to say the police acted beyonf their orders. No. Everything went according to plan.

Disgusting. This man should NEVER again be shown any respect. No Diaspora community should ever welcome him. He is an animal, an should be regarded as one. I saw footage of the peaceful protests an hour and a half before the attack and could only imagine every single person in the crowd being beaten and battered.